The History Hour
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016tmg1
- Description
- An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-19 00:01
- last episode published
- 2024-11-16 00:30
- publication frequency
- 7.95 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 426
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-16 | Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Sporting Witness and Witness History programmes. We hear about the half-clay, half-grass exhibition match between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Then, we look back through the archives to find out how Gr... |
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| 2024-11-09 | Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes.We hear about Polish war hero Irena Sendler who saved thousands of Jewish children during the Second World War.Expert Kathryn Atwood explains why women’s stories of bravery from t... |
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| 2024-11-02 | Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes.For nearly 40 years, Siegfried and Roy wowed audiences in Las Vegas with death-defying tricks involving white lions and tigers. But in 2003, their magic show came to a dramatic en... |
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| 2024-10-25 | Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes. Our guest is Doctor Melissa Rogerson, who is a senior lecturer and board games researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia.First, on its 50th anniversary, we hear from... |
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| 2024-10-18 | Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes.We hear about the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan in 2014, the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003 and how flowers have been used as symbols in political history.Plus the Afghan refug... |
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| 2024-10-11 | Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes. Our guest is Zoe Kleinman, the BBC's Technology Editor.We start with the world's first general purpose electronic computer, the ENIAC, built in 1946 by a team of female mathemati... |
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| 2024-10-04 | Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes.We start our programme in 1973, when two men claiming to be Colombian guerrillas hijacked a plane making it fly across Latin American for 60 hours.Our expert guest is Brendan Koer... |
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| 2024-09-27 |
South Africa’s Immorality Act and India's Mars Orbiter Mission We start our programme with the story of a couple who were arrested under South Africa's Immorality Act, which banned sexual relationships between white people and non-white people.Another law banned Inter-racial marriage in South Africa. In 1985, this... |
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| 2024-09-21 | Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes.We start our programme looking at the discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur by Joan Wiffen.Our expert guest is Professor Eugenia Gold, a paleontologist at Suffolk University, ... |
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| 2024-09-13 | Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes. We’re looking at key moments in Ethiopian history, as it’s 50 years since Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a military coup. We start our programme looking at the moment a... |
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