<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 | ||
| Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal | 2025-04-21 | ||
| The origin of World Book Day | 2025-04-18 | ||
| Clearing landmines in Cambodia | 2025-04-17 | ||
| The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia | 2025-04-16 | ||
| The invention of the white LED lightbulb | 2025-04-16 | ||
| The Bali Nine drug smuggling case | 2025-04-14 | ||
| Germany’s ‘Green Belt’ | 2025-04-11 | ||
| Oklahoma City bombing | 2025-04-10 | ||
| Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war | 2025-04-09 | ||
| The Reichstag fire | 2025-04-08 | ||
| The UN retreat from Somalia | 2025-04-07 | ||
| Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy | 2025-04-04 | ||
| JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech | 2025-04-03 | ||
| The Wonder Woman of DC Comics | 2025-04-02 | ||
| The invention of superglue | 2025-04-01 | ||
| The 'ghost town' of Namibia | 2025-03-31 | ||
| The father of Ethio-Jazz | 2025-03-28 | ||
| Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela | 2025-03-27 | ||
| The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović | 2025-03-26 | ||
| Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria | 2025-03-25 |