<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 | ||
| South Africa takes on big pharma | 2021-03-25 | ||
| The woman who got America talking about sex | 2021-03-24 | ||
| Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’ | 2021-03-23 | ||
| The Ulster Workers' Strike | 2021-03-22 | ||
| The dirtiest chess match in history | 2021-03-19 | ||
| Mars-500 isolation experiment | 2021-03-18 | ||
| Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden | 2021-03-17 | ||
| Paris is Burning | 2021-03-15 | ||
| The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles | 2021-03-11 | ||
| Jane: The underground abortion network | 2021-03-10 | ||
| Cixi: China's most powerful woman | 2021-03-09 | ||
| The women of Egypt's Arab Spring | 2021-03-08 | ||
| Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech | 2021-03-05 | ||
| The Sharpeville massacre | 2021-03-04 | ||
| When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home | 2021-03-03 | ||
| Refugee Island | 2021-03-02 | ||
| The world's deepest dive 11km down | 2021-03-01 | ||
| The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone | 2021-02-25 | ||
| The fall of Kwame Nkrumah | 2021-02-24 | ||
| Ireland's bank bailout | 2021-02-23 |