Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1508 Episodo
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The Budapest Memorandum
Publicado: 22/3/2022 -
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Publicado: 21/3/2022 -
The Shard
Publicado: 18/3/2022 -
Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center
Publicado: 17/3/2022 -
Teheran's Freedom Tower
Publicado: 16/3/2022 -
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
Publicado: 15/3/2022 -
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
Publicado: 14/3/2022 -
The Wages for Housework campaign
Publicado: 11/3/2022 -
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
Publicado: 10/3/2022 -
The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
Publicado: 9/3/2022 -
Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
Publicado: 4/3/2022 -
The takeover of NTV in Russia
Publicado: 3/3/2022 -
Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation
Publicado: 2/3/2022 -
Putin's war in Chechnya
Publicado: 1/3/2022 -
Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia
Publicado: 28/2/2022 -
The 2014 annexation of Crimea
Publicado: 25/2/2022 -
The death of Trayvon Martin
Publicado: 24/2/2022 -
The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2
Publicado: 23/2/2022 -
Nixon in China
Publicado: 22/2/2022 -
The first sex worker strike
Publicado: 21/2/2022
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.
