<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 | ||
South Africa's first free elections | 2019-04-24 | ||
Britain's first vegans | 2019-04-23 | ||
Nato bombs Serbian TV | 2019-04-22 | ||
The Columbine massacre | 2019-04-19 | ||
How organic farming started | 2019-04-18 | ||
Auto-destructive art | 2019-04-17 | ||
The first play on Broadway written by a black woman | 2019-04-16 | ||
Dennis Tito - the first space tourist | 2019-04-15 | ||
Chinese restaurant syndrome | 2019-04-12 | ||
The rise of Hindu nationalism | 2019-04-11 | ||
The man who invented wingsuits | 2019-04-09 | ||
The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 | 2019-04-09 | ||
The man who made Marilyn Monroe dance | 2019-04-08 | ||
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 2019-04-05 | ||
Abolishing the army | 2019-04-04 | ||
The warship lost for more than 300 years | 2019-04-03 | ||
EMDR: the eye-movement therapy | 2019-04-01 | ||
Patty Hearst the rebel heiress | 2019-04-01 | ||
Mindfulness for the masses | 2019-03-29 | ||
The secret Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim | 2019-03-28 |