
Witness History
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.
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- Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
- The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia
- My aunt created The Moomins
- Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones
- The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky
- Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction
- Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir
- How BRICS got its name
- Japan surrenders in Beijing
- The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away
- 'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'
- The home video war
- The acquittal of OJ Simpson
- 'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
- The strike that shook up India's tea industry
- The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
- The Cradock Four killings
- Guinea stadium massacre
- The secretary who made millions from her typos
- DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
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