<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 | ||
| Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite | 2024-06-04 | ||
| ‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan | 2024-06-03 | ||
| The commercial that changed advertising: 1984 | 2024-05-31 | ||
| The Flint water crisis | 2024-05-30 | ||
| The first Aboriginal MP | 2024-05-29 | ||
| The first ever quintuplets | 2024-05-28 | ||
| Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted' | 2024-05-27 | ||
| How Air Jordans were created | 2024-05-24 | ||
| Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection | 2024-05-23 | ||
| Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession | 2024-05-22 | ||
| How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world | 2024-05-21 | ||
| Bata: Pioneering shoemakers | 2024-05-20 | ||
| When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught | 2024-05-17 | ||
| Baghdad heavy metal | 2024-05-16 | ||
| How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia | 2024-05-15 | ||
| The creation of the state of Israel | 2024-05-14 | ||
| The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians | 2024-05-13 | ||
| Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal | 2024-05-10 | ||
| How a billion Indians got a digital ID | 2024-05-09 | ||
| The pioneering eye surgery that led to Lasik | 2024-05-08 |