1502 Epizód

  1. English TV lessons in China go primetime

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 31.

  2. 1968 New York City teachers' strike

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 30.

  3. Lithuania's 'wolf children'

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 29.

  4. The Baltic chain protest

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 28.

  5. The Milltown Cemetery attack

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 27.

  6. The launch of Windows 95

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 24.

  7. Replacing the Panchen Lama

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 23.

  8. The murder of Maurizio Gucci

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 22.

  9. Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 21.

  10. Hunting the Unabomber

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 20.

  11. Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 17.

  12. 'I wrote Schindler's List'

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 16.

  13. Kobe earthquake

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 15.

  14. Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 14.

  15. Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 13.

  16. The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 10.

  17. The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 09.

  18. The invention of the hotel key card

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 08.

  19. Charlie Hebdo attack

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 07.

  20. Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 02.

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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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