Witness History
Podcast autorstwa BBC World Service
1518 Odcinki
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The Ken Burns Effect
Opublikowany: 30.10.2024 -
Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator
Opublikowany: 29.10.2024 -
The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
Opublikowany: 28.10.2024 -
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
Opublikowany: 25.10.2024 -
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
Opublikowany: 24.10.2024 -
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
Opublikowany: 23.10.2024 -
I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
Opublikowany: 22.10.2024 -
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Opublikowany: 21.10.2024 -
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Opublikowany: 18.10.2024 -
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Opublikowany: 17.10.2024 -
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
Opublikowany: 16.10.2024 -
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
Opublikowany: 15.10.2024 -
The Sunflower Movement
Opublikowany: 14.10.2024 -
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Opublikowany: 11.10.2024 -
How the QR code was invented
Opublikowany: 10.10.2024 -
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
Opublikowany: 9.10.2024 -
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Opublikowany: 8.10.2024 -
Eliza: When chatbots started
Opublikowany: 7.10.2024 -
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
Opublikowany: 4.10.2024 -
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
Opublikowany: 3.10.2024
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.
