<p>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.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series | 2025-05-20 | ||
| Lunch atop a Skyscraper | 2025-05-19 | ||
| Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment | 2025-05-16 | ||
| Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants | 2025-05-15 | ||
| The founding of the Warsaw Pact | 2025-05-14 | ||
| Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals | 2025-05-13 | ||
| Intervision Song Contest | 2025-05-12 | ||
| Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group | 2025-05-09 | ||
| VE Day celebrations | 2025-05-08 | ||
| Sinking of the Lusitania | 2025-05-07 | ||
| The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker | 2025-05-06 | ||
| Conclave: How a new pope is chosen | 2025-05-05 | ||
| Snake: Popularising mobile gaming | 2025-05-02 | ||
| Ten countries join the EU in one night | 2025-05-01 | ||
| The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War | 2025-04-30 | ||
| Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975 | 2025-04-29 | ||
| Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle | 2025-04-28 | ||
| The death of Adolf Hitler | 2025-04-25 | ||
| Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa | 2025-04-24 | ||
| Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke' | 2025-04-23 |