1500 Epizód

  1. Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 23.

  2. The creation of YouTube

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 22.

  3. Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 21.

  4. The origin of World Book Day

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 18.

  5. Clearing landmines in Cambodia

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 17.

  6. The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 16.

  7. The invention of the white LED lightbulb

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 16.

  8. The Bali Nine drug smuggling case

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 14.

  9. Germany’s ‘Green Belt’

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 11.

  10. Oklahoma City bombing

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 10.

  11. Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 09.

  12. The Reichstag fire

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 08.

  13. The UN retreat from Somalia

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 07.

  14. Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 04.

  15. JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 03.

  16. The Wonder Woman of DC Comics

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 02.

  17. The invention of superglue

    Közzétéve: 2025. 04. 01.

  18. The 'ghost town' of Namibia

    Közzétéve: 2025. 03. 31.

  19. The father of Ethio-Jazz

    Közzétéve: 2025. 03. 28.

  20. Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela

    Közzétéve: 2025. 03. 27.

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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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