<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 | ||
| Cixi: China's most powerful woman | 2021-03-09 | ||
| The women of Egypt's Arab Spring | 2021-03-08 | ||
| Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech | 2021-03-05 | ||
| The Sharpeville massacre | 2021-03-04 | ||
| When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home | 2021-03-03 | ||
| Refugee Island | 2021-03-02 | ||
| The world's deepest dive 11km down | 2021-03-01 | ||
| The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone | 2021-02-25 | ||
| The fall of Kwame Nkrumah | 2021-02-24 | ||
| Ireland's bank bailout | 2021-02-23 | ||
| Acid rain | 2021-02-22 | ||
| Mary Wilson | 2021-02-19 | ||
| Free breakfasts with the Black Panthers | 2021-02-18 | ||
| The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks | 2021-02-17 | ||
| Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two | 2021-02-16 | ||
| Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one | 2021-02-15 | ||
| How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War | 2021-02-12 | ||
| A Ghanaian nurse's story | 2021-02-11 | ||
| The paper that helped the homeless | 2021-02-10 | ||
| Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike | 2021-02-09 |