1498 Epizód

  1. Lunch atop a Skyscraper

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 19.

  2. Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 16.

  3. Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 15.

  4. The founding of the Warsaw Pact

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 14.

  5. Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 13.

  6. Intervision Song Contest

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 12.

  7. Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 09.

  8. VE Day celebrations

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 08.

  9. Sinking of the Lusitania

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 07.

  10. The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 06.

  11. Conclave: How a new pope is chosen

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 05.

  12. Snake: Popularising mobile gaming

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 02.

  13. Ten countries join the EU in one night

    Közzétéve: 2025. 05. 01.

  14. The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 30.

  15. Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 29.

  16. Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 28.

  17. The death of Adolf Hitler

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 25.

  18. Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 24.

  19. Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 23.

  20. The creation of YouTube

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 22.

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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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