Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Publicado: 14/2/2025 -
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Publicado: 13/2/2025 -
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Publicado: 12/2/2025 -
Eisenhower's farewell address
Publicado: 11/2/2025 -
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish civil war
Publicado: 10/2/2025 -
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
Publicado: 7/2/2025 -
The first global case of coral bleaching
Publicado: 6/2/2025 -
Cuban blindness
Publicado: 5/2/2025 -
Oradour massacre
Publicado: 4/2/2025 -
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
Publicado: 3/2/2025 -
English TV lessons in China go primetime
Publicado: 31/1/2025 -
1968 New York City teachers' strike
Publicado: 30/1/2025 -
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
Publicado: 29/1/2025 -
The Baltic chain protest
Publicado: 28/1/2025 -
The Milltown Cemetery attack
Publicado: 27/1/2025 -
The launch of Windows 95
Publicado: 24/1/2025 -
Replacing the Panchen Lama
Publicado: 23/1/2025 -
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
Publicado: 22/1/2025 -
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Publicado: 21/1/2025 -
Hunting the Unabomber
Publicado: 20/1/2025
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.
