1472 Episoder

  1. The book that changed the way we eat

    Publisert: 25.5.2020
  2. Britain's World War Two crime wave

    Publisert: 22.5.2020
  3. Explaining autism

    Publisert: 21.5.2020
  4. The first 3D printer

    Publisert: 20.5.2020
  5. Kowloon Walled City

    Publisert: 19.5.2020
  6. The Miami riots

    Publisert: 18.5.2020
  7. Sweden's fishy submarine scare

    Publisert: 15.5.2020
  8. Confessions of a Prince

    Publisert: 14.5.2020
  9. Fighting for the pill in Japan

    Publisert: 13.5.2020
  10. The first 24-hour children's helpline

    Publisert: 12.5.2020
  11. The liberation of the Channel Islands

    Publisert: 11.5.2020
  12. VE Day

    Publisert: 8.5.2020
  13. The Soviet occupation of Berlin

    Publisert: 7.5.2020
  14. The battle for Berlin

    Publisert: 6.5.2020
  15. The death of Hitler

    Publisert: 5.5.2020
  16. The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany

    Publisert: 4.5.2020
  17. Hiroshima's trees of hope

    Publisert: 1.5.2020
  18. The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute

    Publisert: 30.4.2020
  19. The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator

    Publisert: 29.4.2020
  20. The 1957 flu that killed a million people

    Publisert: 28.4.2020

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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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