<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 | ||
| Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit | 2025-11-17 | ||
| When Maldives' ministers met underwater | 2025-11-14 | ||
| Bataclan attack in Paris | 2025-11-13 | ||
| Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials | 2025-11-12 | ||
| Birth of the G7 | 2025-11-11 | ||
| Breaking the sound barrier | 2025-11-10 | ||
| Discovering the largest dinosaur ever | 2025-11-07 | ||
| The ‘father of e-books’ | 2025-11-06 | ||
| The creation of Miffy | 2025-11-05 | ||
| President Clinton is impeached | 2025-11-04 | ||
| The brains behind Thunderbirds | 2025-11-03 | ||
| Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer | 2025-10-31 | ||
| Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds | 2025-10-30 | ||
| Srebrenica massacre | 2025-10-29 | ||
| The invention of the balloon-expandable stent | 2025-10-28 | ||
| Death of a priest | 2025-10-27 | ||
| The man who invented the scratch card | 2025-10-24 | ||
| GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity | 2025-10-23 | ||
| The UK’s first black-owned music studio | 2025-10-22 | ||
| Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize | 2025-10-21 |