<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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The First CIA Coup in Latin America 2018-08-03
The Search for Iran's Nuclear Programme 2018-08-02
The Retirement Home For Dancing Bears 2018-08-01
Shambo The Sacred Bull 2018-07-31
WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors 2018-07-30
Women At West Point 2018-07-27
Winston Churchill's Election Defeat 2018-07-26
The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History 2018-07-24
The Kitchen Debate 2018-07-24
South Korea's Summer Of Terror 2018-07-23
A Vet Remembers The Hyde Park Bombing 2018-07-20
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2018-07-19
The Bombing of the King David Hotel 2018-07-18
The Virgin Lands Campaign 2018-07-17
The Killing of the Russian Tsar 2018-07-16
Italy's 'Ghost Shipwreck' 2018-07-13
The Spiegel Affair 2018-07-12
Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test 2018-07-11
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart 2018-07-10
Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War' 2018-07-05
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