<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 man who invented wingsuits | 2019-04-09 | ||
| The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 | 2019-04-09 | ||
| The man who made Marilyn Monroe dance | 2019-04-08 | ||
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 2019-04-05 | ||
| Abolishing the army | 2019-04-04 | ||
| The warship lost for more than 300 years | 2019-04-03 | ||
| EMDR: the eye-movement therapy | 2019-04-01 | ||
| Patty Hearst the rebel heiress | 2019-04-01 | ||
| Mindfulness for the masses | 2019-03-29 | ||
| The secret Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim | 2019-03-28 | ||
| Around the world in 20 days | 2019-03-27 | ||
| Drama in the British parliament | 2019-03-26 | ||
| The first home pregnancy test | 2019-03-25 | ||
| The rise of Viktor Orban | 2019-03-22 | ||
| Autism and the MMR vaccine | 2019-03-21 | ||
| The discovery of the Aztec Moon Goddess | 2019-03-20 | ||
| The first democratic elections in the USSR | 2019-03-19 | ||
| The millionaire Nazi war criminal | 2019-03-18 | ||
| How Little America was built in Afghanistan | 2019-03-15 | ||
| Slaughterhouse-Five | 2019-03-14 |