<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 | ||
| Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre' | 2020-10-20 | ||
| Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs | 2020-10-19 | ||
| Saddam Hussein's big movie project | 2020-10-16 | ||
| The US Voting Rights Act of 1965 | 2020-10-15 | ||
| The last of the Kazakh herders | 2020-10-14 | ||
| The end of the Lebanese Civil War | 2020-10-13 | ||
| The launch of CNN | 2020-10-12 | ||
| The Battle of Lewisham | 2020-10-09 | ||
| Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain | 2020-10-08 | ||
| Fighting racism on the dancefloor | 2020-10-07 | ||
| Britain's first black woman headteacher | 2020-10-06 | ||
| The voyage of the Empire Windrush | 2020-10-05 | ||
| The house by the lake | 2020-10-02 | ||
| Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales | 2020-10-01 | ||
| The founding of Google | 2020-09-30 | ||
| The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti | 2020-09-29 | ||
| The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser | 2020-09-28 | ||
| Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000 | 2020-09-25 | ||
| Blackwater killed my son | 2020-09-24 | ||
| When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit | 2020-09-23 |