<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 | ||
| Benjamin Britten's War Requiem | 2021-06-09 | ||
| Tunisia’s legal brothels | 2021-06-08 | ||
| When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor | 2021-06-07 | ||
| How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic | 2021-06-04 | ||
| Afghanistan's poppy problem | 2021-06-03 | ||
| When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers | 2021-06-02 | ||
| The killing of Pablo Escobar | 2021-06-01 | ||
| The war on drugs | 2021-05-31 | ||
| The Tulsa Race Massacre | 2021-05-28 | ||
| Rock concert for Chernobyl | 2021-05-27 | ||
| Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend | 2021-05-26 | ||
| The first Arab woman pilot | 2021-05-25 | ||
| The strike that shocked India | 2021-05-24 | ||
| Fighting forced marriage in war | 2021-05-21 | ||
| Saving the world's wetlands | 2021-05-20 | ||
| Striking in South Korea in 1980 | 2021-05-18 | ||
| When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound | 2021-05-17 | ||
| China's Democracy Wall | 2021-05-14 | ||
| The trial of South Africa’s 'Dr Death' | 2021-05-13 | ||
| The Jewish exodus from Iraq | 2021-05-12 |