<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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Freeing American prisoners from Iran 2020-02-28
The last smallpox outbreak 2020-02-27
The rebel nuns who left their convent behind 2020-02-26
The first mobile phone call 2020-02-25
An Antarctic mystery 2020-02-24
Saving Antarctica 2020-02-21
Saddam Hussein's 'Supergun' 2020-02-20
Fighting oil pollution with art in Nigeria 2020-02-19
How meditation changes your brain 2020-02-18
The Pale Blue Dot 2020-02-17
The Rules: A dating handbook 2020-02-14
The best-seller Fear of Flying 2020-02-13
Diary of life in a favela 2020-02-12
The man who first published Harry Potter 2020-02-11
Chairman Mao's Little Red Book 2020-02-10
The release of Nelson Mandela 2020-02-07
The Native American casino boom in the US 2020-02-06
Witnessing the birth of a new language 2020-02-05
Cixi: China's most powerful woman 2020-02-04
London's first black policeman 2020-02-03
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