<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 | ||
| The Peter Principle | 2021-09-17 | ||
| Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune | 2021-09-16 | ||
| The earthquake that devastated Haiti | 2021-09-15 | ||
| The lost king of France | 2021-09-14 | ||
| The Attica prison rebellion | 2021-09-13 | ||
| 9/11: The backlash against American Muslims | 2021-09-10 | ||
| America attacks Afghanistan | 2021-09-09 | ||
| With the president on 9/11 | 2021-09-08 | ||
| The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud | 2021-09-07 | ||
| The warnings before 9/11 | 2021-09-06 | ||
| North Korea's founding father | 2021-09-03 | ||
| The businessman who defied the Mafia | 2021-09-02 | ||
| Surviving the fall of Saigon | 2021-09-01 | ||
| The first modern electric car | 2021-08-31 | ||
| Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline' | 2021-08-27 | ||
| Syria's rebel poet | 2021-08-26 | ||
| Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities | 2021-08-25 | ||
| My father survived the sinking of the Titanic | 2021-08-24 | ||
| John Maynard Keynes | 2021-08-23 | ||
| When The Queen met Ceaușescu | 2021-08-20 |