<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. </p><p>Recent episodes explore everything from football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| The lost King of England | 2020-08-18 | ||
| Surviving Saddam | 2020-08-17 | ||
| The invention of the modern ventilator | 2020-08-14 | ||
| Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey | 2020-08-13 | ||
| Beirut's Hotel War | 2020-08-12 | ||
| Bremen’s Elephant Statue | 2020-08-11 | ||
| Radar and World War Two | 2020-08-10 | ||
| The atomic bombs dropped on Japan | 2020-08-06 | ||
| The battle of Midway | 2020-08-05 | ||
| The internment of Japanese Americans | 2020-08-04 | ||
| The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | 2020-08-03 | ||
| The death of Heinrich Himmler | 2020-07-31 | ||
| Benidorm and the birth of package tourism | 2020-07-30 | ||
| Adrift for 76 days | 2020-07-29 | ||
| Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires | 2020-07-28 | ||
| The writer who put Latinos centre stage | 2020-07-27 | ||
| The fastest vaccine ever developed | 2020-07-24 | ||
| The first safe house for Afghan women | 2020-07-23 | ||
| The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests | 2020-07-22 | ||
| The Million Man March | 2020-07-21 |