<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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| The assassination of King Faisal | 2023-12-19 | ||
| Tsunami devastates Samoa | 2023-12-18 | ||
| The funeral of Nelson Mandela | 2023-12-15 | ||
| Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears | 2023-12-14 | ||
| Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime | 2023-12-13 | ||
| Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs | 2023-12-12 | ||
| Murder of the Romanovs | 2023-12-11 | ||
| The release of DOOM | 2023-12-08 | ||
| ‘The disappeared’ of Argentina | 2023-12-07 | ||
| A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power | 2023-12-06 | ||
| Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets | 2023-12-05 |