<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>
Title | Date published | ||
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs | 2019-05-21 | ||
Walking the Great Wall of China | 2019-05-20 | ||
Hitler's stolen children | 2019-05-17 | ||
China's One Child policy | 2019-05-16 | ||
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war | 2019-05-15 | ||
Predicting the financial crash | 2019-05-14 | ||
The Karakoram highway | 2019-05-13 | ||
Strictly Come Dancing | 2019-05-10 | ||
The war on drugs | 2019-05-09 | ||
The Bauhaus | 2019-05-08 | ||
The siege of Dien Bien Phu | 2019-05-07 | ||
Jack Ma: The founder of Alibaba | 2019-05-06 | ||
The Malayan Emergency | 2019-05-03 | ||
The sinking of the Belgrano | 2019-05-02 | ||
The Arctic African | 2019-05-01 | ||
Rupert Brooke | 2019-04-30 | ||
Ellen comes out | 2019-04-29 | ||
The al-Yamamah arms deals | 2019-04-26 | ||
Sri Lanka: A journalist's editorial from the grave | 2019-04-25 | ||
South Africa's first free elections | 2019-04-24 |