<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 exodus of Kashmiri Hindus | 2020-01-07 | ||
| German atrocities in Poland during WW2 | 2020-01-06 | ||
| East Germany's punks | 2020-01-03 | ||
| Desmond's: A sitcom that changed Britain | 2020-01-02 | ||
| The book that predicted an end to civilisation | 2020-01-01 | ||
| Negotiating an end to El Salvador's civil war | 2019-12-31 | ||
| The Chippendales | 2019-12-30 | ||
| Vietnam war: Surviving the 'Christmas bombing' campaign | 2019-12-27 | ||
| Cirque du Soleil | 2019-12-26 | ||
| The secret history of Monopoly | 2019-12-25 | ||
| The invasion of Afghanistan | 2019-12-24 | ||
| Fighting cancer | 2019-12-23 | ||
| The creation of Abuja | 2019-12-20 | ||
| Bee crisis: Colony Collapse Disorder | 2019-12-19 | ||
| The Romanian revolution | 2019-12-18 | ||
| Women and the Sabarimala temple | 2019-12-17 | ||
| Black GIs during World War Two | 2019-12-16 | ||
| The attack on India's parliament | 2019-12-13 | ||
| The killing of Amadou Diallo | 2019-12-12 | ||
| The IRA siege at Balcombe Street | 2019-12-10 |