1508 Epizód

  1. The Bluetooth story

    Közzétéve: 2024. 04. 04.

  2. Sweden's pioneering paternity leave

    Közzétéve: 2024. 04. 03.

  3. The man who invented the seat belt

    Közzétéve: 2024. 04. 02.

  4. Fifty years of Abba

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 31.

  5. Surviving the Rwandan genocide

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 29.

  6. The founding of Nato

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 28.

  7. Britain's first beach for nudists

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 27.

  8. The Heimlich Manoeuvre

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 26.

  9. Britain's Mirpuri migration

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 25.

  10. Wham! in China

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 22.

  11. Discovering the Terracotta Army

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 21.

  12. The 'comfort women' of World War Two

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 20.

  13. Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 19.

  14. Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 18.

  15. The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 15.

  16. Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 14.

  17. Paraguay adopts its second language

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 13.

  18. Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 12.

  19. 11M: The day Madrid was bombed

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 11.

  20. MH370: The plane that vanished

    Közzétéve: 2024. 03. 08.

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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.

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