<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 | ||
| Cixi: China's most powerful woman | 2020-02-04 | ||
| London's first black policeman | 2020-02-03 | ||
| The Treaty of Rome | 2020-01-31 | ||
| The first self-made female millionaire | 2020-01-30 | ||
| The ancient oak tree that taught the world a lesson | 2020-01-29 | ||
| Reforming India's rape laws | 2020-01-28 | ||
| The Way Ahead group: Modernising the Royal Family | 2020-01-27 | ||
| The frozen zoo | 2020-01-24 | ||
| The discovery of whalesong | 2020-01-23 | ||
| Silent Spring: A book that changed the world | 2020-01-22 | ||
| How the dodo died out | 2020-01-21 | ||
| The mystery of the disappearing frogs | 2020-01-20 | ||
| The killing of Osama Bin Laden | 2020-01-17 | ||
| The story of George Stinney Jr | 2020-01-16 | ||
| The woman who negotiated peace with a rebel group | 2020-01-15 | ||
| Storming the Stasi HQ | 2020-01-14 | ||
| Britain's National Trust | 2020-01-13 | ||
| The battle for Fallujah | 2020-01-10 | ||
| The Computers for Schools revolution | 2020-01-09 | ||
| The murder of environmentalist Chico Mendes | 2020-01-08 |