Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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First Danish queen for 600 years
Publicerades: 2023-02-14 -
'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted
Publicerades: 2023-02-13 -
'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'
Publicerades: 2023-02-10 -
The Pope and Jews
Publicerades: 2023-02-09 -
Pope John Paul I’s sudden death
Publicerades: 2023-02-08 -
Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II
Publicerades: 2023-02-07 -
How a Pope is chosen
Publicerades: 2023-02-06 -
The first black music station in Europe
Publicerades: 2023-02-03 -
The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye
Publicerades: 2023-02-02 -
Columbia space shuttle disaster
Publicerades: 2023-02-01 -
Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'
Publicerades: 2023-01-31 -
Palestine Post bombing
Publicerades: 2023-01-30 -
Invention of the MP3
Publicerades: 2023-01-27 -
Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner
Publicerades: 2023-01-26 -
Smolensk air disaster
Publicerades: 2023-01-25 -
Japanese death row guard
Publicerades: 2023-01-24 -
When Britain tried to censor the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Publicerades: 2023-01-23 -
Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy
Publicerades: 2023-01-20 -
France's nuclear tests in Algeria
Publicerades: 2023-01-19 -
Kosovo’s house schools
Publicerades: 2023-01-18
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.
