<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 | ||
| Bee crisis: Colony Collapse Disorder | 2019-12-19 | ||
| The Romanian revolution | 2019-12-18 | ||
| Women and the Sabarimala temple | 2019-12-17 | ||
| Black GIs during World War Two | 2019-12-16 | ||
| The attack on India's parliament | 2019-12-13 | ||
| The killing of Amadou Diallo | 2019-12-12 | ||
| The IRA siege at Balcombe Street | 2019-12-10 | ||
| The battle of the Louvre pyramid | 2019-12-09 | ||
| The Cuban writer who defied Fidel Castro | 2019-12-06 | ||
| Jaslyk – Uzbekistan’s infamous prison | 2019-12-05 | ||
| The British sculptor who won over the world | 2019-12-04 | ||
| Shackleton | 2019-12-03 | ||
| The killing of Pablo Escobar | 2019-12-02 | ||
| The first confirmed case of HIV in America | 2019-11-29 | ||
| Handing back Uluru | 2019-11-28 | ||
| From cakes to computers | 2019-11-27 | ||
| India's economic revolution | 2019-11-26 | ||
| The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking | 2019-11-25 | ||
| Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter | 2019-11-22 | ||
| The man who got Delhi on track | 2019-11-21 |