<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 | ||
| Families interned in WW2 China | 2023-02-23 | ||
| The invention of Semtex | 2023-02-22 | ||
| Seggae riots in Mauritius | 2023-02-21 | ||
| Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin | 2023-02-20 | ||
| First winter ascent of Everest | 2023-02-17 | ||
| Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb | 2023-02-16 | ||
| 'I developed Pokémon' | 2023-02-15 | ||
| First Danish queen for 600 years | 2023-02-14 | ||
| 'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted | 2023-02-13 | ||
| 'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning' | 2023-02-10 | ||
| The Pope and Jews | 2023-02-09 | ||
| Pope John Paul I’s sudden death | 2023-02-08 | ||
| Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II | 2023-02-07 | ||
| How a Pope is chosen | 2023-02-06 | ||
| The first black music station in Europe | 2023-02-03 | ||
| The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye | 2023-02-02 | ||
| Columbia space shuttle disaster | 2023-02-01 | ||
| Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce' | 2023-01-31 | ||
| Palestine Post bombing | 2023-01-30 | ||
| Invention of the MP3 | 2023-01-27 |