1496 Epizód

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

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 12.

  2. Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 11.

  3. The woman born in a prisoner of war camp

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 10.

  4. World War Two’s Rome escape line

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 09.

  5. Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 06.

  6. The discovery of the first exoplanets

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 05.

  7. Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 04.

  8. The world’s largest model train set

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 03.

  9. Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 02.

  10. The Battle of the Beanfield

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 30.

  11. The legacy of The Pirate Bay

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 29.

  12. Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 28.

  13. The Tragically Hip's final gig

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 27.

  14. 'I wrote the Champions League anthem'

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 26.

  15. Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 23.

  16. The founding of Magnum Photos

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 22.

  17. Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 21.

  18. Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 20.

  19. Lunch atop a Skyscraper

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 19.

  20. Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 16.

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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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