<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 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
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