<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 first black American at Ole Miss | 2017-10-05 | ||
| Israel Withdraws From Gaza | 2017-10-04 | ||
| The Raising of the Mary Rose | 2017-10-03 | ||
| The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art | 2017-10-02 | ||
| The Sudden Death of Pope John Paul I | 2017-09-28 | ||
| A Bitter Divorce: When Guinea said "No" to France | 2017-09-28 | ||
| Walking the Great Wall of China | 2017-09-26 | ||
| Britain's Land Girls | 2017-09-26 | ||
| Steve Biko: Black Consciousness Leader | 2017-09-25 | ||
| The Cross Border Horse Race | 2017-09-22 | ||
| Roselle - The 9/11 Guide Dog | 2017-09-21 | ||
| Australia's Rabbit Plague | 2017-09-20 | ||
| Shark Attack Survivor | 2017-09-18 | ||
| The Transatlantic Locust Plague | 2017-09-18 | ||
| Sabra and Shatila - A Massacre in Lebanon | 2017-09-15 | ||
| The German Schoolboy Arrested for Writing a Letter | 2017-09-14 | ||
| The Hippydilly Squat | 2017-09-13 | ||
| The Collapse of Northern Rock | 2017-09-12 | ||
| Nok Terracottas: Nigeria's Ancient Treasure | 2017-09-11 | ||
| France's Last Guillotine | 2017-09-08 |