<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 | ||
| Creating New Zealand's national walking trail | 2023-05-18 | ||
| The Dambusters | 2023-05-17 | ||
| German child evacuees of World War Two | 2023-05-16 | ||
| Singapore executes Filipina maid | 2023-05-15 | ||
| World War II victory in North Africa | 2023-05-12 | ||
| Warsaw Ghetto uprising | 2023-05-11 | ||
| The last commercial flight out of Kai Tak | 2023-05-10 | ||
| The sinking of the SS Tilawa: the ‘Indian Titanic’ | 2023-05-09 | ||
| United States bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade | 2023-05-08 | ||
| The removal of Scotland's Stone of Destiny | 2023-05-05 | ||
| Last King of Bulgaria | 2023-05-04 | ||
| The 'execution' of Oliver Cromwell | 2023-05-03 | ||
| Jean-Bédel Bokassa's coronation | 2023-05-02 | ||
| The king under the car park | 2023-05-01 | ||
| The fight to televise the Queen's Coronation | 2023-04-28 | ||
| The Met Gala goes global | 2023-04-27 | ||
| Guatemala's outspoken bishop | 2023-04-26 | ||
| Discovering the secrets of DNA | 2023-04-25 | ||
| Althea McNish: 'I designed fabrics for the Queen' | 2023-04-24 | ||
| The Russian man who pretended to be a dog | 2023-04-21 |