<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 first Emirati female teacher | 2022-02-03 | ||
| The day the world looked up | 2022-02-02 | ||
| The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl | 2022-02-01 | ||
| The Good Friday Agreement | 2022-01-28 | ||
| IRA gun-running in America | 2022-01-27 | ||
| Bloody Sunday | 2022-01-25 | ||
| British troops in Northern Ireland | 2022-01-24 | ||
| A Cold War love affair | 2022-01-21 | ||
| The first bicycle-sharing scheme | 2022-01-20 | ||
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day | 2022-01-20 | ||
| The rise of Boko Haram | 2022-01-17 | ||
| The first silicone breast implants | 2022-01-14 | ||
| Costa Concordia | 2022-01-13 | ||
| Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer | 2022-01-12 | ||
| Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy | 2022-01-11 | ||
| India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose | 2022-01-10 | ||
| Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter | 2022-01-06 | ||
| Marcel Proust | 2022-01-05 | ||
| The end of Stalinist rule in Albania | 2022-01-04 | ||
| The secret history of Monopoly | 2021-12-31 |