Witness History
Podcast autorstwa BBC World Service
1518 Odcinki
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Cabbage Patch Kids
Opublikowany: 27.11.2023 -
The Mumbai attacks
Opublikowany: 24.11.2023 -
The Paris heatwave
Opublikowany: 23.11.2023 -
Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
Opublikowany: 22.11.2023 -
The invention of bubble tea
Opublikowany: 21.11.2023 -
The independence of Zambia
Opublikowany: 20.11.2023 -
Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
Opublikowany: 17.11.2023 -
The Bolivian Water War
Opublikowany: 16.11.2023 -
Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
Opublikowany: 15.11.2023 -
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
Opublikowany: 14.11.2023 -
The invention of the EpiPen
Opublikowany: 13.11.2023 -
The hippo and the tortoise
Opublikowany: 10.11.2023 -
Destruction of Mostar Bridge
Opublikowany: 9.11.2023 -
The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
Opublikowany: 8.11.2023 -
Debbie McGee in Iran
Opublikowany: 7.11.2023 -
Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
Opublikowany: 6.11.2023 -
Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour
Opublikowany: 3.11.2023 -
Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
Opublikowany: 2.11.2023 -
Inventing the black box
Opublikowany: 1.11.2023 -
The discovery of the HIV virus
Opublikowany: 31.10.2023
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.