<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 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 |