<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. </p><p>Recent episodes explore everything from football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.</p>
Title | Date published | ||
Returning to District Six | 2022-12-14 | ||
The Nazi occupation of Jersey | 2022-12-13 | ||
Mongolian revolution | 2022-12-12 | ||
Creating Teletubbies | 2022-12-09 | ||
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam | 2022-12-08 | ||
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes | 2022-12-07 | ||
Demolishing the Babri Masjid | 2022-12-06 | ||
Quebec’s 1995 referendum | 2022-12-05 | ||
Miss World protest | 2022-12-02 | ||
The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag | 2022-12-01 | ||
The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on | 2022-11-30 | ||
CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry | 2022-11-29 | ||
Mombasa terror attacks | 2022-11-28 | ||
How cat's eyes were invented | 2022-11-25 | ||
The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim | 2022-11-24 | ||
When Sweden’s roads went right | 2022-11-23 | ||
First women’s minister in Iran | 2022-11-22 | ||
The invention of the seat belt | 2022-11-21 | ||
Qatar's first female published author | 2022-11-18 | ||
First Emirati female teacher | 2022-11-17 |