1472 Episoder

  1. Paraguay adopts its second language

    Publisert: 13.3.2024
  2. Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate

    Publisert: 12.3.2024
  3. 11M: The day Madrid was bombed

    Publisert: 11.3.2024
  4. MH370: The plane that vanished

    Publisert: 8.3.2024
  5. Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda

    Publisert: 7.3.2024
  6. The Carnation Revolution in Portugal

    Publisert: 6.3.2024
  7. French child evacuees of World War Two

    Publisert: 5.3.2024
  8. Uruguay v the tobacco giant

    Publisert: 4.3.2024
  9. The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada

    Publisert: 1.3.2024
  10. The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru

    Publisert: 29.2.2024
  11. The lost Czech scrolls

    Publisert: 28.2.2024
  12. Crimea's Soviet holiday camp

    Publisert: 27.2.2024
  13. Russia annexes Crimea

    Publisert: 26.2.2024
  14. Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts

    Publisert: 23.2.2024
  15. Columbus Lighthouse

    Publisert: 22.2.2024
  16. Trans murder in Honduras

    Publisert: 21.2.2024
  17. Icelandic women's strike

    Publisert: 20.2.2024
  18. The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs

    Publisert: 19.2.2024
  19. Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war

    Publisert: 16.2.2024
  20. The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’

    Publisert: 15.2.2024

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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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