Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1508 Episodo
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The world's first civil union
Publicado: 18/2/2022 -
Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama
Publicado: 17/2/2022 -
The Berlin Patient
Publicado: 16/2/2022 -
"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces
Publicado: 15/2/2022 -
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
Publicado: 14/2/2022 -
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
Publicado: 11/2/2022 -
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
Publicado: 10/2/2022 -
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
Publicado: 9/2/2022 -
The invention of Google Maps
Publicado: 8/2/2022 -
The demise of the Soviet Union
Publicado: 7/2/2022 -
The first Emirati female teacher
Publicado: 3/2/2022 -
The day the world looked up
Publicado: 2/2/2022 -
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
Publicado: 1/2/2022 -
The Good Friday Agreement
Publicado: 28/1/2022 -
IRA gun-running in America
Publicado: 27/1/2022 -
The Grand Hotel Bombing
Publicado: 26/1/2022 -
Bloody Sunday
Publicado: 25/1/2022 -
British troops in Northern Ireland
Publicado: 24/1/2022 -
A Cold War love affair
Publicado: 21/1/2022 -
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
Publicado: 20/1/2022
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.
