<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 | ||
| Cuba's boxing ban | 2022-10-20 | ||
| The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write | 2022-10-19 | ||
| Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown | 2022-10-18 | ||
| Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos | 2022-10-17 | ||
| Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers | 2022-10-14 | ||
| Torturing strikers in South Korea | 2022-10-12 | ||
| Disney animators' strike | 2022-10-11 | ||
| UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’ | 2022-10-10 | ||
| The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival | 2022-10-07 | ||
| The Harder They Come | 2022-10-06 | ||
| The fall of Slobodan Milosevic | 2022-10-05 | ||
| The release of Gilad Shalit | 2022-10-04 | ||
| The funk and soul club that changed Manchester | 2022-10-03 | ||
| Dassler brothers’ rift | 2022-09-30 | ||
| The raising of the Mary Rose | 2022-09-29 | ||
| Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos | 2022-09-28 | ||
| The power of Jomo Kenyatta | 2022-09-26 | ||
| Festival of Light | 2022-09-23 | ||
| Iran-Iraq War begins | 2022-09-22 | ||
| The first Pope to visit Africa | 2022-09-21 |