<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 first 24-hour children's helpline | 2020-05-12 | ||
| The liberation of the Channel Islands | 2020-05-11 | ||
| VE Day | 2020-05-08 | ||
| The Soviet occupation of Berlin | 2020-05-07 | ||
| The battle for Berlin | 2020-05-06 | ||
| The death of Hitler | 2020-05-05 | ||
| The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany | 2020-05-04 | ||
| Hiroshima's trees of hope | 2020-05-01 | ||
| The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute | 2020-04-30 | ||
| The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator | 2020-04-29 | ||
| The 1957 flu that killed a million people | 2020-04-28 | ||
| Waria warriors - the fight for trans rights in Indonesia | 2020-04-27 | ||
| Tennessee Williams on the BBC | 2020-04-24 | ||
| The Brompton Manley Ventilator | 2020-04-23 | ||
| Edhi: Pakistan's 'Angel of Mercy' | 2020-04-22 | ||
| The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade | 2020-04-21 | ||
| The Deepwater Horizon disaster | 2020-04-20 | ||
| A space crash | 2020-04-17 | ||
| When Skylab fell to Earth | 2020-04-16 | ||
| The last men on the Moon | 2020-04-15 |