<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 | ||
| Cecil the lion | 2025-07-01 | ||
| Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art | 2025-06-30 | ||
| Italian happiness trains | 2025-06-27 | ||
| The opening of the Medellin Metro | 2025-06-26 | ||
| The funeral train for Robert Kennedy | 2025-06-25 | ||
| The Czech Freedom Train | 2025-06-24 | ||
| The Gratitude Train: France thanks America | 2025-06-23 | ||
| Making Jaws | 2025-06-20 | ||
| The signing of the Treaty of Versailles | 2025-06-19 | ||
| Civil rights swim-in | 2025-06-18 | ||
| Charleston church shooting | 2025-06-17 | ||
| 'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women | 2025-06-16 | ||
| The Schengen Agreement | 2025-06-13 | ||
| Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech | 2025-06-12 | ||
| Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise | 2025-06-11 | ||
| The woman born in a prisoner of war camp | 2025-06-10 | ||
| World War Two’s Rome escape line | 2025-06-09 | ||
| Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town | 2025-06-06 | ||
| The discovery of the first exoplanets | 2025-06-05 | ||
| Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus | 2025-06-04 |