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    Witness History

    Witness History

    Witness History

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    Length:
    1082 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    History as told by the people who were there.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 1082 episodes

    Title

    How to win friends and influence people

    In 1936, Dale Carnegie wrote one of the world’s most popular self help books - How to W...

    10 minutes
    		May 01, 2024

    How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world

    In 1961, the American psychologist Stanley Milgram began a series of controversial expe...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 30, 2024

    Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay

    It’s 70 years since General Alfredo Stroessner seized power in Paraguay in a military c...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 29, 2024

    Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile

    On 13 December 1990, the anti-apartheid politician Oliver Tambo returned to South Afric...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024

    Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships

    Brenda Fassie was one of South Africa's biggest pop stars in the late 1980s. The singer...

    10 minutes
    		Apr 25, 2024

    Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home

    In August 2002, the remains of an indigenous South African woman called Sarah Baartman ...

    10 minutes
    		Apr 24, 2024

    Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

    When South African schoolchildren marched in protest against having to study Afrikaans ...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 23, 2024

    South Africa's referendum on apartheid

    On 18 March 1992, white South Africans overwhelmingly backed a mandate for political re...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 22, 2024

    Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight

    Major Charity Adams was the first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battal...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 19, 2024

    Deadly Everest avalanche

    On 18 April 2014, an avalanche on Mount Everest killed 16 men, who were carrying suppli...

    10 minutes
    		Apr 18, 2024