Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1503 Episodo
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The funk and soul club that changed Manchester
Publicado: 3/10/2022 -
Dassler brothers’ rift
Publicado: 30/9/2022 -
The raising of the Mary Rose
Publicado: 29/9/2022 -
Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos
Publicado: 28/9/2022 -
The power of Jomo Kenyatta
Publicado: 26/9/2022 -
Festival of Light
Publicado: 23/9/2022 -
Iran-Iraq War begins
Publicado: 22/9/2022 -
The first Pope to visit Africa
Publicado: 21/9/2022 -
Ancient fossils give new insight
Publicado: 20/9/2022 -
World War Two child evacuees in Britain
Publicado: 19/9/2022 -
The last days of Queen Victoria
Publicado: 16/9/2022 -
When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace
Publicado: 15/9/2022 -
Windsor Castle fire
Publicado: 14/9/2022 -
Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Derby
Publicado: 13/9/2022 -
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Publicado: 12/9/2022 -
The car that charmed Brazil
Publicado: 10/9/2022 -
The Candelaria child massacre
Publicado: 8/9/2022 -
Building of Brasilia
Publicado: 7/9/2022 -
The murder that shocked Brazil
Publicado: 6/9/2022 -
Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy
Publicado: 5/9/2022
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.
