<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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Benjamin Britten's War Requiem 2021-06-09
Tunisia’s legal brothels 2021-06-08
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor 2021-06-07
How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic 2021-06-04
Afghanistan's poppy problem 2021-06-03
When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers 2021-06-02
The killing of Pablo Escobar 2021-06-01
The war on drugs 2021-05-31
The Tulsa Race Massacre 2021-05-28
Rock concert for Chernobyl 2021-05-27
Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend 2021-05-26
The first Arab woman pilot 2021-05-25
The strike that shocked India 2021-05-24
Fighting forced marriage in war 2021-05-21
Saving the world's wetlands 2021-05-20
Striking in South Korea in 1980 2021-05-18
When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound 2021-05-17
China's Democracy Wall 2021-05-14
The trial of South Africa’s 'Dr Death' 2021-05-13
The Jewish exodus from Iraq 2021-05-12
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