<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 | ||
| China's breakthrough malaria cure | 2019-03-13 | ||
| Lenin and the deadly mushrooms | 2019-03-12 | ||
| The fall of Singapore | 2019-03-11 | ||
| Britain's first female black headteacher | 2019-03-08 | ||
| The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles | 2019-03-07 | ||
| Speaking out against my abuser: Daniel Ortega | 2019-03-06 | ||
| The creation of the Barbie doll | 2019-03-05 | ||
| Britain's first Muslim woman in government | 2019-03-04 | ||
| Happy Beer Day! | 2019-03-01 | ||
| Asama Sanso: Japanese hostage crisis | 2019-02-28 | ||
| Sucked out of a plane | 2019-02-27 | ||
| Swine flu shuts down Mexico City | 2019-02-26 | ||
| Venezuela's oil bonanza | 2019-02-25 | ||
| How science ended the search for Josef Mengele | 2019-02-22 | ||
| The men who tried to warn us about smoking | 2019-02-21 | ||
| The curse of Agent Orange | 2019-02-20 | ||
| The Columbia space shuttle disaster | 2019-02-19 | ||
| The true story of Roma | 2019-02-18 | ||
| Maastricht: The birth of the European Union | 2019-02-15 | ||
| Confessions of a Soviet alcoholic | 2019-02-14 |