<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 struggle to save Borneo's rainforests | 2020-07-22 | ||
The Million Man March | 2020-07-21 | ||
The man who tried to kill Hitler | 2020-07-20 | ||
South Korea's 1980s prison camps | 2020-07-17 | ||
The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors | 2020-07-16 | ||
Returning Ethiopia's looted history | 2020-07-15 | ||
How Club Med changed holidays | 2020-07-14 | ||
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel | 2020-07-13 | ||
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist | 2020-07-10 | ||
The death of Frida Kahlo | 2020-07-09 | ||
Montreal's 'Night of Terror' | 2020-07-08 | ||
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder | 2020-07-07 | ||
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread | 2020-07-06 | ||
How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams | 2020-07-03 | ||
The lost Nazi-era art trove | 2020-07-02 | ||
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium | 2020-07-01 | ||
The Rolling Stones drugs trial | 2020-06-30 | ||
Jana Andolan – Nepal’s people power movement | 2020-06-29 | ||
Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism | 2020-06-26 | ||
The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys' | 2020-06-25 |