<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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Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail 2019-11-12
Memories of Wilfred Owen 2019-11-11
The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall 2019-11-08
The Bhagalpur blindings 2019-11-07
Britain's secret propaganda war 2019-11-06
A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer 2019-11-05
Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation 2019-11-04
Saving the Great Barrier Reef 2019-11-01
'Jane' - the underground abortion service 2019-10-31
The Algerians who fought with France 2019-10-30
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors 2019-10-29
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech 2019-10-28
The fall of the Berlin Wall 2019-10-25
The Leipzig demonstrations 2019-10-24
East German refugees in the Prague embassy 2019-10-23
The reburial of a Hungarian hero 2019-10-22
The legalisation of Solidarity 2019-10-21
Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist 2019-10-18
Britain's worst nuclear accident 2019-10-17
The man who fed the world 2019-10-16
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