<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>
Title | Date published | ||
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 |