<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 | ||
| Awaji Kannon: One of the world's tallest statues | 2023-04-05 | ||
| Pan-European picnic | 2023-04-04 | ||
| Escaping national service in Eritrea | 2023-04-03 | ||
| A Brief History of Time | 2023-03-31 | ||
| The first photo sent from a phone | 2023-03-30 | ||
| Godfather of manicures | 2023-03-29 | ||
| How Bengaluru became India’s Silicon Valley | 2023-03-28 | ||
| The windmill that revolutionised wind power | 2023-03-27 | ||
| Keiko: Freeing 'Free Willy' | 2023-03-24 | ||
| The man who lived in an airport | 2023-03-23 | ||
| DDLJ: India’s longest running movie | 2023-03-22 | ||
| Alcatraz: The strangest escape | 2023-03-21 | ||
| Kieu Chinh: A real Hollywood story | 2023-03-20 | ||
| Iraq War: US security guards killed my son | 2023-03-17 | ||
| Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein | 2023-03-16 | ||
| Iraq War: 'Most wanted' playing cards | 2023-03-15 | ||
| Iraq War: Refugees escaping | 2023-03-14 | ||
| Iraq War: The beginning | 2023-03-13 | ||
| From a goddess to a graduate | 2023-03-10 | ||
| Monica McWilliams’ role in the Northern Ireland peace process | 2023-03-09 |