<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 yoga teacher and the violinist 2019-06-21
Sister Lotus - early Chinese online star 2019-06-20
The assassinaton of Medgar Evers 2019-06-19
Carl Gustav Jung 2019-06-18
The death of Neda Soltan 2019-06-17
The first gay marriage in the USA 2019-06-14
How America 'lost' China 2019-06-13
Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Reichstag 2019-06-12
The first anti-psychotic drug 2019-06-11
The end of the war in Kosovo 2019-06-10
The Gurkha soldiers fight for equality 2019-06-07
Broadcasting D-Day 2019-06-06
The Little Prince 2019-06-05
D-Day 2019-06-04
Vikings in York 2019-06-03
Six Degrees - the first online social network 2019-05-31
Behind the scenes on Sesame Street 2019-05-30
Tiananmen Square escape 2019-05-29
Bokassa's massacre of the children 2019-05-28
The death of Jawaharlal Nehru 2019-05-27
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100

Comments about Witness History

comments powered by Disqus
Advertisment: