<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 | ||
| Spies or plane-spotters? | 2021-12-08 | ||
| The V2 rocket | 2021-12-07 | ||
| Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police | 2021-12-06 | ||
| Derek Jarman | 2021-12-03 | ||
| South Africa and Aids drugs | 2021-12-02 | ||
| AZT: The breakthrough treatment for Aids | 2021-12-01 | ||
| The early days of HIV/Aids | 2021-11-30 | ||
| The Aids 'patient zero' myth | 2021-11-29 | ||
| The assassination of the Mirabal sisters | 2021-11-26 | ||
| Estonia’s internet ‘Tiger Leap’ | 2021-11-25 | ||
| The doctor who helped her mother to die | 2021-11-24 | ||
| Europe's last smallpox epidemic | 2021-11-23 | ||
| The Woman in Gold by Gustav Klimt | 2021-11-22 | ||
| Sudan's October Revolution | 2021-11-18 | ||
| Cognitive Behavioural Therapy | 2021-11-17 | ||
| The capture of war criminal Radovan Karadzic | 2021-11-16 | ||
| Kuwaiti oil fires of 1991 | 2021-11-15 | ||
| Shoot: A milestone in performance art | 2021-11-15 | ||
| The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian | 2021-11-11 | ||
| Spying in Berlin | 2021-11-10 |