<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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The Reichstag fire 2025-04-08
The UN retreat from Somalia 2025-04-07
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy 2025-04-04
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech 2025-04-03
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics 2025-04-02
The invention of superglue 2025-04-01
The 'ghost town' of Namibia 2025-03-31
The father of Ethio-Jazz 2025-03-28
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela 2025-03-27
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović 2025-03-26
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria 2025-03-25
The Germanwings plane crash 2025-03-24
The visionary behind the European Space Agency 2025-03-21
The historic handshake in space 2025-03-20
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was' 2025-03-19
First spacewalk 2025-03-18
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme 2025-03-17
Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia 2025-03-14
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’ 2025-03-13
The Capitol Crawl 2025-03-12
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