Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episoade
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Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Publicat: 24.02.2025 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Publicat: 21.02.2025 -
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Publicat: 20.02.2025 -
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Publicat: 19.02.2025 -
Bo: The death of a language
Publicat: 18.02.2025 -
The world's longest kiss
Publicat: 17.02.2025 -
Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Publicat: 14.02.2025 -
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Publicat: 13.02.2025 -
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Publicat: 12.02.2025 -
Eisenhower's farewell address
Publicat: 11.02.2025 -
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish Civil War
Publicat: 10.02.2025 -
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
Publicat: 07.02.2025 -
The first global case of coral bleaching
Publicat: 06.02.2025 -
Cuban blindness
Publicat: 05.02.2025 -
Oradour massacre
Publicat: 04.02.2025 -
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
Publicat: 03.02.2025 -
English TV lessons in China go primetime
Publicat: 31.01.2025 -
1968 New York City teachers' strike
Publicat: 30.01.2025 -
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
Publicat: 29.01.2025 -
The Baltic chain protest
Publicat: 28.01.2025
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.