Witness History
Podcast autorstwa BBC World Service
1472 Odcinki
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How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
Opublikowany: 9.04.2024 -
The 2010 Kampala bombings
Opublikowany: 8.04.2024 -
Bonus: The Black 14
Opublikowany: 6.04.2024 -
Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day
Opublikowany: 5.04.2024 -
The Bluetooth story
Opublikowany: 4.04.2024 -
Sweden's pioneering paternity leave
Opublikowany: 3.04.2024 -
The man who invented the seat belt
Opublikowany: 2.04.2024 -
Fifty years of Abba
Opublikowany: 31.03.2024 -
Surviving the Rwandan genocide
Opublikowany: 29.03.2024 -
The founding of Nato
Opublikowany: 28.03.2024 -
Britain's first beach for nudists
Opublikowany: 27.03.2024 -
The Heimlich Manoeuvre
Opublikowany: 26.03.2024 -
Britain's Mirpuri migration
Opublikowany: 25.03.2024 -
Wham! in China
Opublikowany: 22.03.2024 -
Discovering the Terracotta Army
Opublikowany: 21.03.2024 -
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Opublikowany: 20.03.2024 -
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Opublikowany: 19.03.2024 -
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
Opublikowany: 18.03.2024 -
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Opublikowany: 15.03.2024 -
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
Opublikowany: 14.03.2024
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.
