<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>

Subscribe

Title Date published
The Chappaquiddick Incident 2019-07-24
LGBT 'cooperative' marriages in China 2019-07-23
Mamma Mia! 2019-07-22
The Beagle 2 mission to Mars 2019-07-19
Apollo 13 2019-07-18
The Moon Landing 2019-07-17
Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut 2019-07-16
Laika, the first dog in space 2019-07-15
Kenya's ivory inferno 2019-07-12
Cuba executes top military officers 2019-07-11
The Common Cold Unit 2019-07-10
China puts tampons on sale 2019-07-09
The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack' 2019-07-08
The indigenous fight to stop nuclear waste disposal 2019-07-05
The launch of the Walkman 2019-07-04
Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields' 2019-07-03
Germans kidnapped by Nicaragua's rebels 2019-07-02
The US judge accused of sexual harassment 2019-07-01
Defending a British serial murderer 2019-06-28
The Stonewall Riot 2019-06-27
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100

Comments about Witness History

comments powered by Disqus
Advertisment: