<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 | ||
| Demoted For Being Gay | 2018-06-21 | ||
| Wittenoom: An Australian Tragedy | 2018-06-20 | ||
| Bata the Shoemaker's Revolution | 2018-06-19 | ||
| The Battered Child | 2018-06-18 | ||
| The Death of Kim Il-sung | 2018-06-15 | ||
| The Unified Korean Table Tennis Team | 2018-06-14 | ||
| The GI Who Chose China | 2018-06-13 | ||
| The Beginning of the Korean War | 2018-06-12 | ||
| Korea Divided | 2018-06-11 | ||
| The Execution of Adolf Eichmann | 2018-06-08 | ||
| The Death of General Sani Abacha | 2018-06-07 | ||
| The 1968 Belgrade Student Revolt | 2018-06-06 | ||
| The Assassinaton Attempt that Sparked a Middle East War | 2018-06-05 | ||
| Couch to 5K | 2018-06-04 | ||
| Lyuba the Baby Mammoth | 2018-06-01 | ||
| Isaac Asimov and Science Fiction | 2018-05-31 | ||
| Free Health Care For All | 2018-05-30 | ||
| The Thalidomide Trial | 2018-05-29 | ||
| The First Bicycle Sharing Scheme | 2018-05-28 | ||
| The BBC at Caversham | 2018-05-25 |