<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 | ||
| Ceefax: the start of interactive television | 2024-12-18 | ||
| Surviving Andes plane crash | 2024-12-17 | ||
| Peshawar school massacre | 2024-12-16 | ||
| The birth of reggaeton | 2024-12-13 | ||
| The handover of the Panama Canal | 2024-12-12 | ||
| The Purple Heart Warriors | 2024-12-11 | ||
| Castro's Cuban revolution attempt | 2024-12-09 | ||
| India’s 1998 nuclear tests | 2024-12-06 | ||
| Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism | 2024-12-05 | ||
| The ‘Three Marias’ | 2024-12-04 | ||
| The discovery that led to Covid vaccines | 2024-12-03 | ||
| Gloria Steinem: The start of Ms. Magazine | 2024-12-02 | ||
| The end of the US HIV travel ban | 2024-11-29 | ||
| The deepest man-made hole in the world | 2024-11-28 | ||
| Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire | 2024-11-27 | ||
| The Iran-Contra Affair | 2024-11-26 | ||
| Strictly Come Dancing | 2024-11-25 | ||
| Creation of the UFC | 2024-11-22 | ||
| Lord of the Flies | 2024-11-21 | ||
| Handover of Macau | 2024-11-20 |