Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Publicerades: 2023-05-11 -
The last commercial flight out of Kai Tak
Publicerades: 2023-05-10 -
The sinking of the SS Tilawa: the ‘Indian Titanic’
Publicerades: 2023-05-09 -
United States bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
Publicerades: 2023-05-08 -
The removal of Scotland's Stone of Destiny
Publicerades: 2023-05-05 -
Last King of Bulgaria
Publicerades: 2023-05-04 -
The 'execution' of Oliver Cromwell
Publicerades: 2023-05-03 -
Jean-Bédel Bokassa's coronation
Publicerades: 2023-05-02 -
The king under the car park
Publicerades: 2023-05-01 -
The fight to televise the Queen's Coronation
Publicerades: 2023-04-28 -
The Met Gala goes global
Publicerades: 2023-04-27 -
Guatemala's outspoken bishop
Publicerades: 2023-04-26 -
Discovering the secrets of DNA
Publicerades: 2023-04-25 -
Althea McNish: 'I designed fabrics for the Queen'
Publicerades: 2023-04-24 -
The Russian man who pretended to be a dog
Publicerades: 2023-04-21 -
Smoky the World War II dog hero
Publicerades: 2023-04-20 -
Roselle the 9/11 guide dog
Publicerades: 2023-04-19 -
The world's first labradoodle
Publicerades: 2023-04-18 -
The first dog in space
Publicerades: 2023-04-17 -
Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen
Publicerades: 2023-04-14
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.
