Witness History
Podcast autorstwa BBC World Service
1472 Odcinki
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The IRA hunger strikes
Opublikowany: 4.05.2021 -
How Amsterdam became the cannabis smoking capital of Europe
Opublikowany: 3.05.2021 -
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
Opublikowany: 30.04.2021 -
The battle of Tora Bora
Opublikowany: 29.04.2021 -
The Nairobi US Embassy bombing
Opublikowany: 28.04.2021 -
Meeting Osama bin Laden
Opublikowany: 27.04.2021 -
The siege of Mecca
Opublikowany: 26.04.2021 -
The first space shuttle mission
Opublikowany: 23.04.2021 -
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
Opublikowany: 22.04.2021 -
The Raymond Davis Incident
Opublikowany: 21.04.2021 -
The return of Blue Lake
Opublikowany: 20.04.2021 -
The Eichmann trial
Opublikowany: 19.04.2021 -
China's 'Kingdom of women'
Opublikowany: 16.04.2021 -
The vultures saved from extinction
Opublikowany: 15.04.2021 -
Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
Opublikowany: 14.04.2021 -
How a worm helped explain human development
Opublikowany: 13.04.2021 -
The US Supreme Court's first woman justice
Opublikowany: 12.04.2021 -
Discovering the Jet Stream
Opublikowany: 9.04.2021 -
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
Opublikowany: 8.04.2021 -
David Attenborough's first expedition
Opublikowany: 7.04.2021
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.
