<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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Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder 2023-06-06
Inuit children taken from families 2023-06-05
The first Indian woman to conquer Everest 2023-06-02
Tragedy on Everest 2023-06-01
Mallory on Everest 2023-05-31
Tenzing Norgay conquers Everest 2023-05-30
Edmund Hillary conquers Everest 2023-05-29
The deadliest glacial avalanche in the world 2023-05-26
Trying to unite Africa 2023-05-25
Chasing the world’s biggest tornado 2023-05-24
Fikret Alić 2023-05-23
The sergeants' coup in Suriname 2023-05-22
Pippi Longstocking 2023-05-19
Creating New Zealand's national walking trail 2023-05-18
The Dambusters 2023-05-17
German child evacuees of World War Two 2023-05-16
Singapore executes Filipina maid 2023-05-15
World War II victory in North Africa 2023-05-12
Warsaw Ghetto uprising 2023-05-11
The last commercial flight out of Kai Tak 2023-05-10
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