<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 | ||
| Sweden’s pronoun battle | 2022-08-09 | ||
| The resignation of President Nixon | 2022-08-08 | ||
| The return of Asians to Uganda | 2022-08-05 | ||
| The city shaped by Ugandan Asians | 2022-08-04 | ||
| The exodus of Asians from Uganda | 2022-08-03 | ||
| When Asians were forced to leave Kenya | 2022-08-02 | ||
| Why Asians came to Uganda | 2022-08-01 | ||
| The Leaflet Bomber | 2022-08-01 | ||
| The Tangshan Earthquake | 2022-07-28 | ||
| Inventing nicotine patches | 2022-07-27 | ||
| The Surkov leaks | 2022-07-26 | ||
| Ukraine's Revolution on Granite | 2022-07-25 | ||
| Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco | 2022-07-22 | ||
| The Soviet James Bond | 2022-07-21 | ||
| Who shot JR? | 2022-07-20 | ||
| Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cookery’ | 2022-07-19 | ||
| The school for telenovela stars | 2022-07-18 | ||
| Fighting for the pill in Japan | 2022-07-15 | ||
| The man who invented the Pill | 2022-07-14 | ||
| When Tunisia led on women's rights | 2022-07-13 |