<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 | ||
| Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president | 2025-09-15 | ||
| How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two | 2025-09-12 | ||
| 9/11: The generosity of Gander | 2025-09-10 | ||
| The story behind The Peter Principle book | 2025-09-10 | ||
| The Enabling Act | 2025-09-09 | ||
| Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture | 2025-09-08 | ||
| ‘How I sold my clothes and created a $5 billion Vinted empire’ | 2025-09-05 | ||
| World's first womb transplant baby | 2025-09-04 | ||
| The Chindits | 2025-09-03 | ||
| The founding of USAID | 2025-09-02 | ||
| Discovering the Titanic | 2025-09-01 | ||
| John Lennon's final headline concerts | 2025-08-29 | ||
| The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic | 2025-08-28 | ||
| Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot | 2025-08-27 | ||
| Creating CAPTCHA | 2025-08-26 | ||
| The creation of the International Criminal Court | 2025-08-25 | ||
| Geneva Conventions | 2025-08-22 | ||
| The rise and fall of BlackBerry | 2025-08-21 | ||
| The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants | 2025-08-20 | ||
| One man’s escape from McCarthyism | 2025-08-19 |