<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 | ||
| The longest plane hijacking in Latin America | 2024-10-04 | ||
| The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea | 2024-10-03 | ||
| South Africa’s nuclear weapons | 2024-10-02 | ||
| Cambodia war crimes | 2024-10-01 | ||
| Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass | 2024-09-30 | ||
| The Estonia ferry disaster | 2024-09-27 | ||
| South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage | 2024-09-26 | ||
| Arrested for "immorality" in South Africa | 2024-09-25 | ||
| Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society | 2024-09-24 | ||
| India's Mars Orbiter Mission | 2024-09-23 | ||
| Designing the Google logo | 2024-09-20 | ||
| The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur | 2024-09-19 | ||
| India’s plague outbreak | 2024-09-18 | ||
| Camouflaging Leningrad | 2024-09-17 | ||
| The invention of the CT scanner | 2024-09-16 | ||
| When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk | 2024-09-13 | ||
| Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa' | 2024-09-12 | ||
| Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor | 2024-09-11 | ||
| Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath | 2024-09-10 | ||
| Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown | 2024-09-09 |