<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 | ||
| Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour | 2023-11-03 | ||
| Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola | 2023-11-02 | ||
| Inventing the black box | 2023-11-01 | ||
| The discovery of the HIV virus | 2023-10-31 | ||
| The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon | 2023-10-30 | ||
| Turkey: Gezi Park protests | 2023-10-27 | ||
| 'The streets of Harare were littered with money' | 2023-10-26 | ||
| The 1993 MAD hijack | 2023-10-25 | ||
| The 1980 Turkey coup | 2023-10-24 | ||
| The first Bosphorus Bridge | 2023-10-23 | ||
| Osmondmania | 2023-10-20 | ||
| Launching Lagos Fashion Week | 2023-10-19 | ||
| Mexico’s murdered women | 2023-10-18 | ||
| Rana Plaza building collapse | 2023-10-17 | ||
| Cambodian peace walk | 2023-10-16 | ||
| Surviving an acid attack and changing the law | 2023-10-13 | ||
| Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power | 2023-10-12 | ||
| Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag | 2023-10-11 | ||
| The 84-year-old primary school pupil | 2023-10-10 | ||
| Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle | 2023-10-09 |