<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 | ||
| Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown | 2024-09-09 | ||
| Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler | 2024-09-06 | ||
| Apollo 13 | 2024-09-05 | ||
| The end of the Irish marriage bar | 2024-09-04 | ||
| Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover' | 2024-09-03 | ||
| I led the 'Umbrella' protests | 2024-09-02 | ||
| The woman who spoke to the space station | 2024-08-30 | ||
| Guatemala's disappeared | 2024-08-29 | ||
| Waris Dirie | 2024-08-28 | ||
| The writer of Mary Poppins | 2024-08-27 | ||
| Canada’s first UFO landing pad | 2024-08-26 | ||
| Spain's La Tomatina | 2024-08-23 | ||
| Argentina's five presidents in two weeks | 2024-08-22 | ||
| India’s first female bartender | 2024-08-22 | ||
| Nazis in Egypt | 2024-08-20 | ||
| The celebrity murder case that divided France | 2024-08-19 | ||
| Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings | 2024-08-16 | ||
| How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal' | 2024-08-15 | ||
| Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence | 2024-08-14 | ||
| The last ever Olympic art competition | 2024-08-13 |