<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 | ||
| Mary Wilson | 2021-02-19 | ||
| Free breakfasts with the Black Panthers | 2021-02-18 | ||
| The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks | 2021-02-17 | ||
| Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two | 2021-02-16 | ||
| Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one | 2021-02-15 | ||
| How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War | 2021-02-12 | ||
| A Ghanaian nurse's story | 2021-02-11 | ||
| The paper that helped the homeless | 2021-02-10 | ||
| Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike | 2021-02-09 | ||
| Francis Bacon in the archives | 2021-02-09 | ||
| DES Daughters | 2021-02-08 | ||
| General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel | 2021-02-05 | ||
| Drugs in the Vietnam War | 2021-02-04 | ||
| The Burma uprising of 1988 | 2021-02-03 | ||
| The Moscow State Circus | 2021-02-02 | ||
| The first Eurostar from England to France | 2021-02-01 | ||
| The anthem of the Arab Spring | 2021-01-29 | ||
| Libya's Arab uprising | 2021-01-28 | ||
| Yemen's 2011 uprising | 2021-01-27 | ||
| Syria in the Arab Spring | 2021-01-26 |