<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 | ||
| Nasa's female aquanauts | 2020-04-14 | ||
| The unlikely pioneers of online shopping | 2020-04-10 | ||
| The Trojan Room coffee pot | 2020-04-07 | ||
| The Homebrew computer club | 2020-04-06 | ||
| Being a Chinese Muslim | 2020-04-03 | ||
| The Swedish warship restored after 300 years | 2020-04-02 | ||
| Avenging the Amritsar Massacre | 2020-04-01 | ||
| The trembling giant | 2020-03-31 | ||
| Britain's first woman judge | 2020-03-30 | ||
| The AIDS Memorial Quilt | 2020-03-27 | ||
| The Cheonan sinking | 2020-03-26 | ||
| The Saudi bombardment of Yemen | 2020-03-25 | ||
| Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus | 2020-03-24 | ||
| The Chinese cure for malaria | 2020-03-23 | ||
| The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope | 2020-03-20 | ||
| The 'I Love You' computer virus | 2020-03-20 | ||
| The Major and the VW Beetle | 2020-03-20 | ||
| Red Hollywood | 2020-03-18 | ||
| The fight to make sexual harassment a crime | 2020-03-17 | ||
| Marburg virus | 2020-03-13 |