<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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Saddam Hussein's big movie project 2020-10-16
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965 2020-10-15
The last of the Kazakh herders 2020-10-14
The end of the Lebanese Civil War 2020-10-13
The launch of CNN 2020-10-12
The Battle of Lewisham 2020-10-09
Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain 2020-10-08
Fighting racism on the dancefloor 2020-10-07
Britain's first black woman headteacher 2020-10-06
The voyage of the Empire Windrush 2020-10-05
The house by the lake 2020-10-02
Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales 2020-10-01
The founding of Google 2020-09-30
The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti 2020-09-29
The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser 2020-09-28
Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000 2020-09-25
Blackwater killed my son 2020-09-24
When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit 2020-09-23
How Liberia wrote off its debts 2020-09-22
The Galileo project 2020-09-21
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