1472 Episodo

  1. Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia

    Publicado: 2/7/2024
  2. Subway Art: The graffiti bible

    Publicado: 1/7/2024
  3. I designed Hello Kitty

    Publicado: 29/6/2024
  4. The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America

    Publicado: 27/6/2024
  5. Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society

    Publicado: 26/6/2024
  6. Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision

    Publicado: 25/6/2024
  7. The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans

    Publicado: 24/6/2024
  8. Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand

    Publicado: 21/6/2024
  9. The first mega cruise ship

    Publicado: 20/6/2024
  10. The beginning of Benidorm

    Publicado: 19/6/2024
  11. How Cancún became a tourist destination

    Publicado: 18/6/2024
  12. The first budget transatlantic flights

    Publicado: 17/6/2024
  13. Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth

    Publicado: 14/6/2024
  14. Kielland disaster

    Publicado: 13/6/2024
  15. The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid

    Publicado: 12/6/2024
  16. Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza

    Publicado: 11/6/2024
  17. Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters

    Publicado: 10/6/2024
  18. The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush

    Publicado: 7/6/2024
  19. Saving lives on D-Day

    Publicado: 6/6/2024
  20. The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day

    Publicado: 5/6/2024

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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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