<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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Cixi: China's most powerful woman 2021-03-09
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring 2021-03-08
Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech 2021-03-05
The Sharpeville massacre 2021-03-04
When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home 2021-03-03
Refugee Island 2021-03-02
The world's deepest dive 11km down 2021-03-01
The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone 2021-02-25
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah 2021-02-24
Ireland's bank bailout 2021-02-23
Acid rain 2021-02-22
Mary Wilson 2021-02-19
Free breakfasts with the Black Panthers 2021-02-18
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks 2021-02-17
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two 2021-02-16
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one 2021-02-15
How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War 2021-02-12
A Ghanaian nurse's story 2021-02-11
The paper that helped the homeless 2021-02-10
Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike 2021-02-09
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