<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 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
Tanzania's socialist experiment 2020-06-24
South Korea's economic miracle 2020-06-23
The New Deal 2020-06-22
The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise 2020-06-19
The friendship train 2020-06-18
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers 2020-06-17
Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution 2020-06-16
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief 2020-06-15
Three Strikes Law 2020-06-12
Rodney King and the LA riots 2020-06-11
Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western 2020-06-10
The 16th Street church bombing 2020-06-09
Brown v the Board of Education 2020-06-08
The portable defibrillator 2020-06-05
The origin of the WHO 2020-06-04
How Christo wrapped the Reichstag 2020-06-03
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