<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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| How Liberia wrote off its debts | 2020-09-22 | ||
| The Galileo project | 2020-09-21 | ||
| The mothers of Argentina's disappeared | 2020-09-18 | ||
| Tank Man | 2020-09-17 | ||
| The Mau Mau struggle against British rule | 2020-09-15 | ||
| Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus | 2020-09-14 | ||
| Why the US rejected universal healthcare | 2020-09-11 | ||
| Banning alcohol in an Indian state | 2020-09-10 | ||
| The birth of Reddit | 2020-09-09 | ||
| The Dawson's Field hijacking | 2020-09-09 | ||
| Haiti's cholera outbreak | 2020-09-08 | ||
| Care in the Community | 2020-09-04 | ||
| The Cape Town bombings | 2020-09-03 | ||
| The birth of the Sony Walkman | 2020-09-02 | ||
| Flying through a volcano | 2020-09-01 | ||
| Inventing James Bond | 2020-08-31 |