<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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Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe 2024-01-01
Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery' 2023-12-29
The disputed history of pad Thai 2023-12-28
Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food 2023-12-27
Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit 2023-12-26
Inventing Nutella 2023-12-25
'The bad boy of Welsh politics' 2023-12-22
Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt 2023-12-21
The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda 2023-12-20
The assassination of King Faisal 2023-12-19
Tsunami devastates Samoa 2023-12-18
The funeral of Nelson Mandela 2023-12-15
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears 2023-12-14
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime 2023-12-13
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs 2023-12-12
Murder of the Romanovs 2023-12-11
The release of DOOM 2023-12-08
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina 2023-12-07
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power 2023-12-06
Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets 2023-12-05
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