Amazing photographs and the people who took them

Amazing photographs and the people who took t...

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Norway’s sushi contribution and Laurel and Hardy’s Christmas

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We learn about how a Norwegian businessman brought salmon sushi to Japan in the 1980s. Our guest is cookbook author Nancy Singleton Hachisu, who tells us more about the history ...  عرض المزيد

Banky's 'Dismaland' and the Paris climate agreement

We start with the street artist Banksy, and his 2015 dystopian 'bemusement park'.Then, we talk to roller coaster enthusiast Megan MacCausland, from the European Coaster Club. Plus, we go back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the coelacanth, a fish believed to have be ...  عرض المزيد

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Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
Witness History

The Malian photographer, Malick Sidibé, is one of Africa’s most celebrated artists. His most famous photographs show black and white scenes of young people partying in the capital Bamako in the joyful, confident era after Mali got its independence from France in 1960. In the 1990 ...  عرض المزيد

Photo History Intersession – January 01
History of Photography Podcast

In the third History of Photography Intersession, we look at some interesting events from January first, as we commemorate the birth date of photographer William Klein, the anniversary of the death of Edward Weston, some facts about George Eastman and his inventions and the birth ...  عرض المزيد

The Invention of Photography
In Our Time: Science

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development of photography in the 1830s, when techniques for 'drawing with light' evolved to the stage where, in 1839, both Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot made claims for its invention. These followed the development of the camera ...  عرض المزيد

Quelle est la place des femmes dans l’histoire de la photographie ? [Table-ronde]
Une Autre Histoire

Si nous avons voulu dédier une saison du podcast Une Autre Histoire à cinq femmes photographes (Lee Miller, Gerda Taro, Francesca Woodman, Virginia de Castiglione et Berenice Abbott), c’est pour mettre en lumière le parcours de photographes influentes, qui ont parfois été oubliée ...  عرض المزيد