Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
Publicerades: 2024-04-17 -
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
Publicerades: 2024-04-16 -
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
Publicerades: 2024-04-15 -
Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender
Publicerades: 2024-04-12 -
St Teresa of Avila's severed hand
Publicerades: 2024-04-11 -
The Scream: A stolen masterpiece
Publicerades: 2024-04-10 -
How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
Publicerades: 2024-04-09 -
The 2010 Kampala bombings
Publicerades: 2024-04-08 -
Bonus: The Black 14
Publicerades: 2024-04-06 -
Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day
Publicerades: 2024-04-05 -
The Bluetooth story
Publicerades: 2024-04-04 -
Sweden's pioneering paternity leave
Publicerades: 2024-04-03 -
The man who invented the seat belt
Publicerades: 2024-04-02 -
Fifty years of Abba
Publicerades: 2024-03-31 -
Surviving the Rwandan genocide
Publicerades: 2024-03-29 -
The founding of Nato
Publicerades: 2024-03-28 -
Britain's first beach for nudists
Publicerades: 2024-03-27 -
The Heimlich Manoeuvre
Publicerades: 2024-03-26 -
Britain's Mirpuri migration
Publicerades: 2024-03-25 -
Wham! in China
Publicerades: 2024-03-22
Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest, the disastrous D-Day rehearsal, and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.
