<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 and Japan at War | 2018-12-17 | ||
| The US Apologises for Wartime Internment | 2018-12-17 | ||
| Englandspiel: The Deadly WW2 Spy Game | 2018-12-13 | ||
| Cicely Saunders And The Modern Hospice Movement | 2018-12-12 | ||
| Apollo 8 | 2018-12-12 | ||
| When China Joined the WTO | 2018-12-11 | ||
| Angela Merkel's Rise to Power | 2018-12-07 | ||
| Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family | 2018-12-06 | ||
| The Armenian Earthquake | 2018-12-05 | ||
| The Coronation of Jean-Bédel Bokassa | 2018-12-04 | ||
| Berlin's Rubble Women | 2018-12-03 | ||
| Norway's EU referendum | 2018-11-30 | ||
| The Discovery of Dinosaur Eggs | 2018-11-29 | ||
| The man who inspired Britain's first Aids charity | 2018-11-28 | ||
| The Antarctic Whale Hunters | 2018-11-27 | ||
| The Destruction Of Iraq's Marshlands | 2018-11-26 | ||
| The USSR Opens Up to the West | 2018-11-23 | ||
| The Last Days of Yasser Arafat | 2018-11-22 | ||
| The Story Behind The Man Who Shot JFK | 2018-11-21 | ||
| The 'Braceros', America's Mexican Guest Workers | 2018-11-20 |