<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 birth of the Sony Walkman | 2020-09-02 | ||
| Flying through a volcano | 2020-09-01 | ||
| Inventing James Bond | 2020-08-31 | ||
| Who has the right to vote in America? | 2020-08-28 | ||
| St Kilda | 2020-08-27 | ||
| Occupy Wall Street | 2020-08-26 | ||
| America's first woman combat pilot | 2020-08-25 | ||
| Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer | 2020-08-24 | ||
| The siege at Ruby Ridge | 2020-08-21 | ||
| The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution | 2020-08-20 | ||
| The Guatemalan syphilis scandal | 2020-08-20 | ||
| The first modern asthma inhaler | 2020-08-19 | ||
| The lost King of England | 2020-08-18 | ||
| Surviving Saddam | 2020-08-17 | ||
| The invention of the modern ventilator | 2020-08-14 | ||
| Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey | 2020-08-13 | ||
| Beirut's Hotel War | 2020-08-12 | ||
| Bremen’s Elephant Statue | 2020-08-11 | ||
| Radar and World War Two | 2020-08-10 | ||
| The atomic bombs dropped on Japan | 2020-08-06 |