Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
Publicado: 17/1/2025 -
'I wrote Schindler's List'
Publicado: 16/1/2025 -
Kobe earthquake
Publicado: 15/1/2025 -
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
Publicado: 14/1/2025 -
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
Publicado: 13/1/2025 -
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
Publicado: 10/1/2025 -
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Publicado: 9/1/2025 -
The invention of the hotel key card
Publicado: 8/1/2025 -
Charlie Hebdo attack
Publicado: 7/1/2025 -
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
Publicado: 2/1/2025 -
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Publicado: 1/1/2025 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
Publicado: 31/12/2024 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
Publicado: 30/12/2024 -
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
Publicado: 27/12/2024 -
'Kimchi war'
Publicado: 26/12/2024 -
Chef to five presidents
Publicado: 25/12/2024 -
When instant noodles came to India
Publicado: 24/12/2024 -
'I created MasterChef'
Publicado: 23/12/2024 -
Australian republic referendum
Publicado: 20/12/2024 -
Poland's bleak Christmas
Publicado: 19/12/2024
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.
