<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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Osmondmania 2023-10-20
Launching Lagos Fashion Week 2023-10-19
Mexico’s murdered women 2023-10-18
Rana Plaza building collapse 2023-10-17
Cambodian peace walk 2023-10-16
Surviving an acid attack and changing the law 2023-10-13
Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power 2023-10-12
Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag 2023-10-11
The 84-year-old primary school pupil 2023-10-10
Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle 2023-10-09
Protectors of the Amazon 2023-10-06
The Amoco Cadiz oil spill 2023-10-05
Nigeria strikes oil 2023-10-04
The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan 2023-10-03
The oil crisis of 1973 2023-10-02
The first cat cafe 2023-09-29
The Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy 2023-09-28
Kassandra: The peacekeeping telenovela in Bosnia 2023-09-27
Concorde's first flight 2023-09-26
Vietnam War: Stopping nuclear disaster 2023-09-25
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