<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 | ||
| Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal | 2025-01-13 | ||
| The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks | 2025-01-10 | ||
| The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg | 2025-01-09 | ||
| The invention of the hotel key card | 2025-01-08 | ||
| Charlie Hebdo attack | 2025-01-07 | ||
| Marie Kondo | 2025-01-06 | ||
| Creating Alexa | 2025-01-03 | ||
| Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy | 2025-01-02 | ||
| Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire | 2025-01-01 | ||
| Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh | 2024-12-31 | ||
| Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu | 2024-12-30 | ||
| Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition | 2024-12-27 | ||
| 'Kimchi war' | 2024-12-26 | ||
| Chef to five presidents | 2024-12-25 | ||
| When instant noodles came to India | 2024-12-24 | ||
| 'I created MasterChef' | 2024-12-23 | ||
| Australian republic referendum | 2024-12-20 | ||
| Poland's bleak Christmas | 2024-12-19 | ||
| Ceefax: the start of interactive television | 2024-12-18 | ||
| Surviving Andes plane crash | 2024-12-17 |