<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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India's affirmative action controversy 2019-09-11
The TV series Friends 2019-09-10
The coup, the president and the embassy 2019-09-09
The businessman who defied the Italian Mafia 2019-09-06
The Holocaust denial trial 2019-09-05
Inside lunar astronaut quarantine 2019-09-04
The first all-women peacekeeping unit 2019-09-03
The outbreak of World War Two 2019-09-02
The paedophile identified by his hands 2019-08-30
Nina Simone moves to Liberia 2019-08-29
The Kindertransport children who fled the Nazis 2019-08-28
Mexico's murdered women 2019-08-27
The murder of black teenager Emmett Till 2019-08-26
The death of Brazil's Getulio Vargas 2019-08-23
The return of the wolf 2019-08-22
I helped liberate Paris from the Nazis 2019-08-21
Finding El Salvador's missing children 2019-08-20
The first human Cyborg 2019-08-19
Dr Seuss: the man who taught America to read 2019-08-16
Catching 'Carlos the Jackal' 2019-08-15
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