<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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Iran-Iraq War begins 2022-09-22
The first Pope to visit Africa 2022-09-21
Ancient fossils give new insight 2022-09-20
World War Two child evacuees in Britain 2022-09-19
The last days of Queen Victoria 2022-09-16
When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace 2022-09-15
Windsor Castle fire 2022-09-14
Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Derby 2022-09-13
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-12
The car that charmed Brazil 2022-09-10
The Candelaria child massacre 2022-09-08
Building of Brasilia 2022-09-07
The murder that shocked Brazil 2022-09-06
Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy 2022-09-05
Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya 2022-09-02
Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika 2022-09-01
Princess Diana dances with John Travolta 2022-08-31
The 'Last Indian' 2022-08-30
Marikana Massacre 2022-08-29
India's onion election 2022-08-26
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