Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1495 Episodo
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The woman who spoke to the space station
Publicado: 30/8/2024 -
Guatemala's disappeared
Publicado: 29/8/2024 -
Waris Dirie
Publicado: 28/8/2024 -
The writer of Mary Poppins
Publicado: 27/8/2024 -
Canada’s first UFO landing pad
Publicado: 26/8/2024 -
Spain's La Tomatina
Publicado: 23/8/2024 -
Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
Publicado: 22/8/2024 -
India’s first female bartender
Publicado: 22/8/2024 -
Nazis in Egypt
Publicado: 20/8/2024 -
The celebrity murder case that divided France
Publicado: 19/8/2024 -
Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
Publicado: 16/8/2024 -
How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
Publicado: 15/8/2024 -
Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
Publicado: 14/8/2024 -
The last ever Olympic art competition
Publicado: 13/8/2024 -
Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
Publicado: 12/8/2024 -
The first televised US presidential debate
Publicado: 9/8/2024 -
President Richard Nixon resigns
Publicado: 8/8/2024 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Publicado: 7/8/2024 -
Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court
Publicado: 6/8/2024 -
The Situation Room photograph
Publicado: 5/8/2024
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.
