<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>
Title | Date published | ||
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 |