1503 Epizód

  1. Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 02.

  2. Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 01.

  3. Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 31.

  4. Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 30.

  5. Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 27.

  6. 'Kimchi war'

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 26.

  7. Chef to five presidents

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 25.

  8. When instant noodles came to India

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 24.

  9. 'I created MasterChef'

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 23.

  10. Australian republic referendum

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 20.

  11. Poland's bleak Christmas

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 19.

  12. Ceefax: the start of interactive television

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 18.

  13. Surviving Andes plane crash

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 17.

  14. Peshawar school massacre

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 16.

  15. The birth of reggaeton

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 13.

  16. The handover of the Panama Canal

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 12.

  17. The Purple Heart Warriors

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 11.

  18. Castro's Cuban revolution attempt

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 09.

  19. India’s 1998 nuclear tests

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 06.

  20. Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 05.

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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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