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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- World's first womb transplant baby 2025.09.04
- The Chindits 2025.09.03
- The founding of USAID 2025.09.02
- Discovering the Titanic 2025.09.01
- John Lennon's final headline concerts 2025.08.29
- The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic 2025.08.28
- Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot 2025.08.27
- Creating CAPTCHA 2025.08.26
- The creation of the International Criminal Court 2025.08.25
- Geneva Conventions 2025.08.22
- The rise and fall of BlackBerry 2025.08.21
- The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants 2025.08.20
- One man’s escape from McCarthyism 2025.08.19
- Spot the Dog 2025.08.18
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia 2025.08.15
- Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys 2025.08.14
- Discovery of the 'Hobbit' 2025.08.13
- Borobudur Temple 2025.08.12
- The Santa Cruz Massacre 2025.08.11
- 1965 Singaporean independence 2025.08.08
