<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. </p><p>Recent episodes explore everything from football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| The death of Adolf Hitler | 2025-04-25 | ||
| Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa | 2025-04-24 | ||
| Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke' | 2025-04-23 | ||
| The creation of YouTube | 2025-04-22 | ||
| Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal | 2025-04-21 | ||
| The origin of World Book Day | 2025-04-18 | ||
| Clearing landmines in Cambodia | 2025-04-17 | ||
| The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia | 2025-04-16 | ||
| The invention of the white LED lightbulb | 2025-04-16 | ||
| The Bali Nine drug smuggling case | 2025-04-14 | ||
| Germany’s ‘Green Belt’ | 2025-04-11 | ||
| Oklahoma City bombing | 2025-04-10 | ||
| Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war | 2025-04-09 | ||
| The Reichstag fire | 2025-04-08 | ||
| The UN retreat from Somalia | 2025-04-07 | ||
| Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy | 2025-04-04 | ||
| JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech | 2025-04-03 | ||
| The wonder woman of DC Comics | 2025-04-02 | ||
| The invention of superglue | 2025-04-01 | ||
| The 'ghost town' of Namibia | 2025-03-31 |