<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 | ||
| Helen Keller | 2020-11-23 | ||
| When the Egyptian president went to Israel | 2020-11-20 | ||
| Our Bodies, Ourselves | 2020-11-19 | ||
| America's WW2 refugee camp | 2020-11-18 | ||
| The world's first woman premier | 2020-11-17 | ||
| Captured by Somali pirates | 2020-11-16 | ||
| The 'good enough' mother | 2020-11-13 | ||
| When Pluto lost its planet status | 2020-11-12 | ||
| World War One in Africa | 2020-11-11 | ||
| Makaton - the signing system that changes lives | 2020-11-10 | ||
| The Guerrilla Girls | 2020-11-09 | ||
| The church that rose from the rubble | 2020-11-06 | ||
| The 1945 Pan-African Congress | 2020-11-05 | ||
| The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin | 2020-11-04 | ||
| 'I just wanted to be white' | 2020-11-03 | ||
| The sex musical that wowed New York and London | 2020-11-02 | ||
| With the president on 9/11 | 2020-10-30 | ||
| Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority | 2020-10-29 | ||
| The Watergate scandal | 2020-10-28 | ||
| Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president | 2020-10-27 |