<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 | ||
| Inventing robot camel jockeys | 2022-11-16 | ||
| Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building | 2022-11-15 | ||
| Formation of the United Arab Emirates | 2022-11-14 | ||
| The child evacuees of World War Two | 2022-11-11 | ||
| Māori protests stops South African rugby tour | 2022-11-10 | ||
| The assassination of Pim Fortuyn | 2022-11-09 | ||
| First rape crisis centres in the US | 2022-11-08 | ||
| Polynesian Panthers | 2022-11-07 | ||
| Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme | 2022-11-04 | ||
| Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher | 2022-11-03 | ||
| Campaigning against sex-selection in India | 2022-11-02 | ||
| Albania’s Stalinist purges | 2022-11-01 | ||
| The Little Black Book survival guide | 2022-10-31 | ||
| Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech | 2022-10-28 | ||
| Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan | 2022-10-27 | ||
| Theatre siege in Moscow | 2022-10-26 | ||
| The Iranian Revolution and women | 2022-10-25 | ||
| Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand | 2022-10-24 | ||
| Founder of the Cuban National Ballet | 2022-10-21 | ||
| Cuba's boxing ban | 2022-10-20 |