<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 | ||
| Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’ | 2023-07-17 | ||
| Creating the first emoji | 2023-07-14 | ||
| When disposable nappies were invented | 2023-07-13 | ||
| Inventing Rubik’s Cube | 2023-07-11 | ||
| Invention of the ballpoint pen | 2023-07-10 | ||
| A right royal night out | 2023-07-07 | ||
| When tourism came to the Maldives | 2023-07-06 | ||
| The National Health Service begins | 2023-07-05 | ||
| Longest-serving democratically elected communist government | 2023-07-04 | ||
| The trial of John Demjanjuk | 2023-07-03 | ||
| I made Lady Gaga's meat dress | 2023-06-30 | ||
| The 'graveyard' for communist statues | 2023-06-29 | ||
| Sampoong department store disaster | 2023-06-28 | ||
| First reports of Ebola | 2023-06-27 | ||
| JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech | 2023-06-26 | ||
| My dad played golf on the moon | 2023-06-23 | ||
| The Empire Windrush arrives | 2023-06-22 | ||
| Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub | 2023-06-21 | ||
| The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country | 2023-06-20 | ||
| Uprising in East Germany | 2023-06-19 |