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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- Guinea stadium massacre 26/09/2025
- The secretary who made millions from her typos 25/09/2025
- DDLJ: India’s longest-running film 24/09/2025
- The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières 23/09/2025
- The start of Scouting 22/09/2025
- Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia 19/09/2025
- The Aswan High Dam 18/09/2025
- Egypt criminalises sexual harassment 17/09/2025
- Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws 16/09/2025
- Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president 15/09/2025
- How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two 12/09/2025
- 9/11: The generosity of Gander 10/09/2025
- The story behind The Peter Principle book 10/09/2025
- The Enabling Act 09/09/2025
- Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture 08/09/2025
- ‘How I sold my clothes and created a $5 billion Vinted empire’ 05/09/2025
- World's first womb transplant baby 04/09/2025
- The Chindits 03/09/2025
- The founding of USAID 02/09/2025
- Discovering the Titanic 01/09/2025
