1495 Epizód

  1. Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 09.

  2. The mystery of Evita’s corpse

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 08.

  3. Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 07.

  4. Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 04.

  5. Back to the Future

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 03.

  6. Drill, baby, drill!

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 02.

  7. Cecil the lion

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 01.

  8. Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 30.

  9. Italian happiness trains

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 27.

  10. The opening of the Medellin Metro

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 26.

  11. The funeral train for Robert Kennedy

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 25.

  12. The Czech Freedom Train

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 24.

  13. The Gratitude Train: France thanks America

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 23.

  14. Making Jaws

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 20.

  15. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 19.

  16. Civil rights swim-in

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 18.

  17. Charleston church shooting

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 17.

  18. 'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 16.

  19. The Schengen Agreement

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 13.

  20. Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 12.

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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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