<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 | ||
| Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail | 2019-11-12 | ||
| Memories of Wilfred Owen | 2019-11-11 | ||
| The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall | 2019-11-08 | ||
| The Bhagalpur blindings | 2019-11-07 | ||
| Britain's secret propaganda war | 2019-11-06 | ||
| A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer | 2019-11-05 | ||
| Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation | 2019-11-04 | ||
| Saving the Great Barrier Reef | 2019-11-01 | ||
| 'Jane' - the underground abortion service | 2019-10-31 | ||
| The Algerians who fought with France | 2019-10-30 | ||
| The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors | 2019-10-29 | ||
| Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech | 2019-10-28 | ||
| The fall of the Berlin Wall | 2019-10-25 | ||
| The Leipzig demonstrations | 2019-10-24 | ||
| East German refugees in the Prague embassy | 2019-10-23 | ||
| The reburial of a Hungarian hero | 2019-10-22 | ||
| The legalisation of Solidarity | 2019-10-21 | ||
| Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist | 2019-10-18 | ||
| Britain's worst nuclear accident | 2019-10-17 | ||
| The man who fed the world | 2019-10-16 |