<p>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.</p>

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Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist 2025-07-21
Italo disco 2025-07-18
The 'Turbot War' 2025-07-17
Greece’s debt crisis 2025-07-16
The Iran nuclear deal 2025-07-15
The start of Voice of America 2025-07-14
The man who said ‘no’ to Disney 2025-07-11
Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina 2025-07-10
Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies 2025-07-09
The mystery of Evita’s corpse 2025-07-08
Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas' 2025-07-07
Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger 2025-07-04
Back to the Future 2025-07-03
Drill, baby, drill! 2025-07-02
Cecil the lion 2025-07-01
Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art 2025-06-30
Italian happiness trains 2025-06-27
The opening of the Medellin Metro 2025-06-26
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy 2025-06-25
The Czech Freedom Train 2025-06-24
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