<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 | ||
| Shanghai at War | 2022-05-19 | ||
| The first McDonald's in Moscow | 2022-05-18 | ||
| People Power in the Philippines | 2022-05-16 | ||
| The war in Transnistria | 2022-05-13 | ||
| Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe | 2022-05-11 | ||
| China opens up to capitalism | 2022-05-10 | ||
| Soviet nuclear missile alert | 2022-05-09 | ||
| Fighting for Uyghur rights in China | 2022-05-06 | ||
| The chemistry of cannabis | 2022-05-05 | ||
| Roe v Wade | 2022-05-04 | ||
| Surviving the Falkands War | 2022-05-03 | ||
| The sinking of the Belgrano | 2022-05-02 | ||
| Algeria's rebel footballers | 2022-04-29 | ||
| The Algerians who fought for France | 2022-04-28 | ||
| Algeria: The Massacre in Paris | 2022-04-27 | ||
| The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience | 2022-04-26 | ||
| Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber | 2022-04-25 | ||
| The battle for Kinder Scout | 2022-04-22 | ||
| Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising | 2022-04-21 | ||
| Britain's Soviet spy scandal | 2022-04-20 |