<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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Cuba's boxing ban 2022-10-20
The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write 2022-10-19
Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown 2022-10-18
Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos 2022-10-17
Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers 2022-10-14
Torturing strikers in South Korea 2022-10-12
Disney animators' strike 2022-10-11
UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’ 2022-10-10
The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival 2022-10-07
The Harder They Come 2022-10-06
The fall of Slobodan Milosevic 2022-10-05
The release of Gilad Shalit 2022-10-04
The funk and soul club that changed Manchester 2022-10-03
Dassler brothers’ rift 2022-09-30
The raising of the Mary Rose 2022-09-29
Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos 2022-09-28
The power of Jomo Kenyatta 2022-09-26
Festival of Light 2022-09-23
Iran-Iraq War begins 2022-09-22
The first Pope to visit Africa 2022-09-21
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