<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 | ||
| Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs | 2021-04-14 | ||
| How a worm helped explain human development | 2021-04-13 | ||
| The US Supreme Court's first woman justice | 2021-04-12 | ||
| Discovering the Jet Stream | 2021-04-09 | ||
| From Leningrad to St Petersburg | 2021-04-08 | ||
| David Attenborough's first expedition | 2021-04-07 | ||
| Mexico's female serial killer | 2021-04-06 | ||
| The women who reclaimed the night | 2021-04-05 | ||
| Black Jesus | 2021-04-02 | ||
| Kidnapped on an orchid hunt | 2021-04-01 | ||
| Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview | 2021-03-31 | ||
| When the prisoners ran the prison | 2021-03-30 | ||
| Anorexia nervosa | 2021-03-29 | ||
| South Africa takes on big pharma | 2021-03-25 | ||
| The woman who got America talking about sex | 2021-03-24 | ||
| Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’ | 2021-03-23 | ||
| The Ulster Workers' Strike | 2021-03-22 | ||
| The dirtiest chess match in history | 2021-03-19 | ||
| Mars-500 isolation experiment | 2021-03-18 | ||
| Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden | 2021-03-17 |