<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 Green March: Moroccans take over the Sahara | 2024-01-16 | ||
| The hunger-striking Bolivian president | 2024-01-15 | ||
| Gürtel scandal: Spain's Watergate | 2024-01-12 | ||
| The first World Laughter Day | 2024-01-11 | ||
| Russian ballerina defects to the west | 2024-01-10 | ||
| The mystery of France's lost king | 2024-01-09 | ||
| The world’s first lesbian couple to get married | 2024-01-08 | ||
| What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec | 2024-01-05 | ||
| The Hindenburg airship disaster | 2024-01-04 | ||
| The invention of the wingsuit | 2024-01-03 | ||
| Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone | 2024-01-02 | ||
| Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe | 2024-01-01 | ||
| Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery' | 2023-12-29 | ||
| The disputed history of pad Thai | 2023-12-28 | ||
| Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food | 2023-12-27 | ||
| Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit | 2023-12-26 | ||
| Inventing Nutella | 2023-12-25 | ||
| 'The bad boy of Welsh politics' | 2023-12-22 | ||
| Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt | 2023-12-21 | ||
| The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda | 2023-12-20 |