<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 | ||
| How Lake Karla in Greece was drained | 2024-04-09 | ||
| The 2010 Kampala bombings | 2024-04-08 | ||
| Bonus: The Black 14 | 2024-04-06 | ||
| Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day | 2024-04-05 | ||
| The Bluetooth story | 2024-04-04 | ||
| Sweden's pioneering paternity leave | 2024-04-03 | ||
| The man who invented the seat belt | 2024-04-02 | ||
| Fifty years of Abba | 2024-03-31 | ||
| Surviving the Rwandan genocide | 2024-03-29 | ||
| The founding of Nato | 2024-03-28 | ||
| Britain's first beach for nudists | 2024-03-27 | ||
| The Heimlich Manoeuvre | 2024-03-26 | ||
| Britain's Mirpuri migration | 2024-03-25 | ||
| Wham! in China | 2024-03-22 | ||
| Discovering the Terracotta Army | 2024-03-21 | ||
| The 'comfort women' of World War Two | 2024-03-20 | ||
| Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution | 2024-03-19 | ||
| Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write | 2024-03-18 | ||
| The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius | 2024-03-15 | ||
| Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero | 2024-03-14 |