<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 invention of Kevlar | 2025-07-24 | ||
| President Clinton plays the sax in Prague | 2025-07-23 | ||
| The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes | 2025-07-22 | ||
| Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist | 2025-07-21 | ||
| Italo disco | 2025-07-18 | ||
| The 'Turbot War' | 2025-07-17 | ||
| Greece’s debt crisis | 2025-07-16 | ||
| The Iran nuclear deal | 2025-07-15 | ||
| The start of Voice of America | 2025-07-14 | ||
| The man who said ‘no’ to Disney | 2025-07-11 | ||
| Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina | 2025-07-10 | ||
| Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies | 2025-07-09 | ||
| The mystery of Evita’s corpse | 2025-07-08 | ||
| Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas' | 2025-07-07 | ||
| Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger | 2025-07-04 | ||
| Back to the Future | 2025-07-03 | ||
| Drill, baby, drill! | 2025-07-02 | ||
| Cecil the lion | 2025-07-01 | ||
| Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art | 2025-06-30 | ||
| Italian happiness trains | 2025-06-27 |