<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 Reichstag fire | 2025-04-08 | ||
| The UN retreat from Somalia | 2025-04-07 | ||
| Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy | 2025-04-04 | ||
| JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech | 2025-04-03 | ||
| The Wonder Woman of DC Comics | 2025-04-02 | ||
| The invention of superglue | 2025-04-01 | ||
| The 'ghost town' of Namibia | 2025-03-31 | ||
| The father of Ethio-Jazz | 2025-03-28 | ||
| Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela | 2025-03-27 | ||
| The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović | 2025-03-26 | ||
| Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria | 2025-03-25 | ||
| The Germanwings plane crash | 2025-03-24 | ||
| The visionary behind the European Space Agency | 2025-03-21 | ||
| The historic handshake in space | 2025-03-20 | ||
| In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was' | 2025-03-19 | ||
| First spacewalk | 2025-03-18 | ||
| The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme | 2025-03-17 | ||
| Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia | 2025-03-14 | ||
| The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’ | 2025-03-13 | ||
| The Capitol Crawl | 2025-03-12 |