Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1502 Episodo
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DDLJ: India’s longest running movie
Publicado: 22/3/2023 -
Alcatraz: The strangest escape
Publicado: 21/3/2023 -
Kieu Chinh: A real Hollywood story
Publicado: 20/3/2023 -
Iraq War: US security guards killed my son
Publicado: 17/3/2023 -
Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein
Publicado: 16/3/2023 -
Iraq War: 'Most wanted' playing cards
Publicado: 15/3/2023 -
Iraq War: Refugees escaping
Publicado: 14/3/2023 -
Iraq War: The beginning
Publicado: 13/3/2023 -
From a goddess to a graduate
Publicado: 10/3/2023 -
Monica McWilliams’ role in the Northern Ireland peace process
Publicado: 9/3/2023 -
Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
Publicado: 6/3/2023 -
Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
Publicado: 3/3/2023 -
The museum at the end of the world
Publicado: 2/3/2023 -
Grenada's underwater sculpture park
Publicado: 1/3/2023 -
Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Publicado: 28/2/2023 -
Wounded Knee siege
Publicado: 27/2/2023 -
When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
Publicado: 24/2/2023 -
Families interned in WW2 China
Publicado: 23/2/2023 -
The invention of Semtex
Publicado: 22/2/2023 -
Seggae riots in Mauritius
Publicado: 21/2/2023
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.
