<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 birth of Bangladesh 2020-12-15
White Christmas 2020-12-14
The return of the beaver 2020-12-11
Neanderthal cave mystery 2020-12-10
Chief Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Prize for Peace 2020-12-09
The pioneer of 'Mountain Filming' 2020-12-08
The life and work of Chester Himes 2020-12-07
The V1 flying bomb 2020-12-04
The slaves who defeated Napoleon 2020-12-02
France's Muslim headscarf ban 2020-12-02
Iraq's pioneering feminist 2020-12-01
How Ethiopian rebels took power in 1991 2020-11-30
The fight for disabled rights in the UK 2020-11-27
Rwanda at the Paralympics 2020-11-26
India's campaign for disability rights 2020-11-25
Britain's little blue disability car 2020-11-24
Helen Keller 2020-11-23
When the Egyptian president went to Israel 2020-11-20
Our Bodies, Ourselves 2020-11-19
America's WW2 refugee camp 2020-11-18
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