1501 Epizód

  1. Surviving Chile's tsunami

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 27.

  2. Denmark’s Inuit children experiment

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 26.

  3. The Nellie massacre

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 25.

  4. Discovering the structure of haemoglobin

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 24.

  5. Assassination of Malcolm X

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 21.

  6. Murder at the Berlin Wall

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 20.

  7. Bolivia’s first indigenous president

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 19.

  8. Bo: The death of a language

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 18.

  9. The world's longest kiss

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 17.

  10. Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 14.

  11. Paul Keating's Redfern speech

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 13.

  12. Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 12.

  13. Eisenhower's farewell address

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 11.

  14. La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish Civil War

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 10.

  15. Heathers: The making of a cult classic

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 07.

  16. The first global case of coral bleaching

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 06.

  17. Cuban blindness

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 05.

  18. Oradour massacre

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 04.

  19. Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 03.

  20. English TV lessons in China go primetime

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 31.

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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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