<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 | ||
| British Cameroons' historic referendum | 2019-02-13 | ||
| Women Airline Pilots | 2019-02-12 | ||
| Iceland Jails Its Bankers | 2019-02-11 | ||
| The Bombardment of Baghdad | 2019-02-08 | ||
| Disney Goes to Europe | 2019-02-07 | ||
| The Soweto Uprising | 2019-02-06 | ||
| The Capture of Che Guevara | 2019-02-05 | ||
| The Death of Hitler | 2019-02-04 | ||
| Women and the Iranian Revolution | 2019-01-31 | ||
| Iran Hostage Rescue Mission | 2019-01-31 | ||
| Iran Hostage Crisis | 2019-01-30 | ||
| Ayatollah Khomeini Returns From Exile | 2019-01-29 | ||
| Musicians of the Iranian Revolution | 2019-01-28 | ||
| The Publisher Who Tried to Change the World | 2019-01-25 | ||
| Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church | 2019-01-23 | ||
| The Carry On Films | 2019-01-22 | ||
| India's First Call Centre | 2019-01-21 | ||
| The Case of Dr Crippen | 2019-01-18 | ||
| The Thames Whale | 2019-01-17 | ||
| Strikers In Saris | 2019-01-16 |