<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 | ||
| Crimea's Soviet holiday camp | 2024-02-27 | ||
| Russia annexes Crimea | 2024-02-26 | ||
| Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts | 2024-02-23 | ||
| Columbus Lighthouse | 2024-02-22 | ||
| Trans murder in Honduras | 2024-02-21 | ||
| Icelandic women's strike | 2024-02-20 | ||
| The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs | 2024-02-19 | ||
| Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war | 2024-02-16 | ||
| The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’ | 2024-02-15 | ||
| The Juliet letters | 2024-02-14 | ||
| Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress | 2024-02-13 | ||
| The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis | 2024-02-12 | ||
| The Battle of Versailles: Catwalk clash of American and French fashion | 2024-02-09 | ||
| How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism | 2024-02-08 | ||
| Lucha Reyes: Peruvian music star | 2024-02-07 | ||
| A young mother saved from death by stoning | 2024-02-06 | ||
| Queen of the 'fro | 2024-02-05 | ||
| First internet cafe | 2024-02-01 | ||
| The Arctic’s doomsday seed vault | 2024-01-31 | ||
| Brazil's Landless Workers Movement | 2024-01-30 |