Witness History
Podcast készítő BBC World Service
1518 Epizód
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Brownie Wise: The creator of Tupperware parties
Közzétéve: 2023. 08. 07. -
Dinosaur in court
Közzétéve: 2023. 08. 04. -
Treehouse on the Berlin Wall
Közzétéve: 2023. 08. 03. -
Birth of a new language
Közzétéve: 2023. 08. 02. -
First dinosaur eggs identified in India
Közzétéve: 2023. 08. 01. -
José Mujica: Prison break to president
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 31. -
Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 28. -
The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 27. -
The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 26. -
Brain: The first personal computer virus
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 25. -
Escaping the Nazis in Greece
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 24. -
The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 21. -
The birth of Barbie
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 20. -
Japan surrenders in China
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 19. -
The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 18. -
Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 17. -
Creating the first emoji
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 14. -
When disposable nappies were invented
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 13. -
Inventing Rubik’s Cube
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 11. -
Invention of the ballpoint pen
Közzétéve: 2023. 07. 10.
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.