<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 | ||
| Being black in Nazi Germany | 2019-09-24 | ||
| The Sound of Music on Broadway | 2019-09-23 | ||
| Sir Anthony Blunt - Soviet spy | 2019-09-20 | ||
| CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia | 2019-09-19 | ||
| Free breakfast with the Black Panthers | 2019-09-18 | ||
| The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell' | 2019-09-17 | ||
| An Ethiopian war hero | 2019-09-16 | ||
| Magellan and the first voyage around the world | 2019-09-13 | ||
| Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war | 2019-09-12 | ||
| India's affirmative action controversy | 2019-09-11 | ||
| The TV series Friends | 2019-09-10 | ||
| The coup, the president and the embassy | 2019-09-09 | ||
| The businessman who defied the Italian Mafia | 2019-09-06 | ||
| The Holocaust denial trial | 2019-09-05 | ||
| Inside lunar astronaut quarantine | 2019-09-04 | ||
| The first all-women peacekeeping unit | 2019-09-03 | ||
| The outbreak of World War Two | 2019-09-02 | ||
| The paedophile identified by his hands | 2019-08-30 | ||
| Nina Simone moves to Liberia | 2019-08-29 | ||
| The Kindertransport children who fled the Nazis | 2019-08-28 |