<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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Tank Man 2020-09-17
The Mau Mau struggle against British rule 2020-09-15
Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus 2020-09-14
Why the US rejected universal healthcare 2020-09-11
Banning alcohol in an Indian state 2020-09-10
The birth of Reddit 2020-09-09
The Dawson's Field hijacking 2020-09-09
Haiti's cholera outbreak 2020-09-08
Care in the Community 2020-09-04
The Cape Town bombings 2020-09-03
The birth of the Sony Walkman 2020-09-02
Flying through a volcano 2020-09-01
Inventing James Bond 2020-08-31
Who has the right to vote in America? 2020-08-28
St Kilda 2020-08-27
Occupy Wall Street 2020-08-26
America's first woman combat pilot 2020-08-25
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer 2020-08-24
The siege at Ruby Ridge 2020-08-21
The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution 2020-08-20
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