<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 Zanzibar Revolution | 2020-06-02 | ||
| The start of eco-tourism | 2020-06-01 | ||
| Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer | 2020-05-29 | ||
| Winston Churchill's doctor | 2020-05-28 | ||
| The Gwangju massacre | 2020-05-27 | ||
| The book that changed the way we eat | 2020-05-25 | ||
| Britain's World War Two crime wave | 2020-05-22 | ||
| Explaining autism | 2020-05-21 | ||
| The first 3D printer | 2020-05-20 | ||
| Kowloon Walled City | 2020-05-19 | ||
| The Miami riots | 2020-05-18 | ||
| Sweden's fishy submarine scare | 2020-05-15 | ||
| Confessions of a Prince | 2020-05-14 | ||
| Fighting for the pill in Japan | 2020-05-13 | ||
| The first 24-hour children's helpline | 2020-05-12 | ||
| The liberation of the Channel Islands | 2020-05-11 | ||
| VE Day | 2020-05-08 | ||
| The Soviet occupation of Berlin | 2020-05-07 | ||
| The battle for Berlin | 2020-05-06 | ||
| The death of Hitler | 2020-05-05 |