<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 | ||
| Judy Garland's Final Shows | 2019-01-14 | ||
| 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' | 2019-01-11 | ||
| Diary of Life in a Favela | 2019-01-10 | ||
| When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors | 2019-01-09 | ||
| Fidel Castro Takes Havana | 2019-01-08 | ||
| The Doomsday Seed Vault | 2019-01-07 | ||
| Vikings in North America | 2019-01-04 | ||
| Ceausescu's 'House of the People' | 2019-01-03 | ||
| Barbara Cartland - Queen of Romance | 2019-01-02 | ||
| Brazil's Marijuana Summer | 2019-01-01 | ||
| Rebels Rout The Army In El Salvador | 2018-12-31 | ||
| When Animals Go To War | 2018-12-28 | ||
| Trautonium: A Revolution in Electronic Music | 2018-12-27 | ||
| UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident | 2018-12-25 | ||
| Scotland's Stone of Destiny | 2018-12-24 | ||
| Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber' | 2018-12-21 | ||
| The Woman Who Wrote Mary Poppins | 2018-12-20 | ||
| Hacking The First Computer Password | 2018-12-19 | ||
| Theatre in the Sahara | 2018-12-18 | ||
| China and Japan at War | 2018-12-17 |