<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 | ||
| Freeing American prisoners from Iran | 2020-02-28 | ||
| The last smallpox outbreak | 2020-02-27 | ||
| The rebel nuns who left their convent behind | 2020-02-26 | ||
| The first mobile phone call | 2020-02-25 | ||
| An Antarctic mystery | 2020-02-24 | ||
| Saving Antarctica | 2020-02-21 | ||
| Saddam Hussein's 'Supergun' | 2020-02-20 | ||
| Fighting oil pollution with art in Nigeria | 2020-02-19 | ||
| How meditation changes your brain | 2020-02-18 | ||
| The Pale Blue Dot | 2020-02-17 | ||
| The Rules: A dating handbook | 2020-02-14 | ||
| The best-seller Fear of Flying | 2020-02-13 | ||
| Diary of life in a favela | 2020-02-12 | ||
| The man who first published Harry Potter | 2020-02-11 | ||
| Chairman Mao's Little Red Book | 2020-02-10 | ||
| The release of Nelson Mandela | 2020-02-07 | ||
| The Native American casino boom in the US | 2020-02-06 | ||
| Witnessing the birth of a new language | 2020-02-05 | ||
| Cixi: China's most powerful woman | 2020-02-04 | ||
| London's first black policeman | 2020-02-03 |