<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 | ||
| Proving climate change: The Keeling curve | 2019-10-14 | ||
| Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies' | 2019-10-11 | ||
| The Bristol bus boycott | 2019-10-10 | ||
| The Notting Hill riots | 2019-10-09 | ||
| The first black woman MP in Britain | 2019-10-08 | ||
| Learie Constantine - fighting racism in the UK | 2019-10-07 | ||
| China opens up to capitalism | 2019-10-04 | ||
| The 1967 Hong Kong riots | 2019-10-03 | ||
| Mao's Cultural Revolution | 2019-10-02 | ||
| My memories of Chairman Mao | 2019-10-01 | ||
| The birth of the People's Republic of China | 2019-09-30 | ||
| The death of a matador | 2019-09-27 | ||
| The Large Hadron Collider | 2019-09-26 | ||
| Fighting the Islamic State group online | 2019-09-25 | ||
| Being black in Nazi Germany | 2019-09-24 | ||
| The Sound of Music on Broadway | 2019-09-23 | ||
| Sir Anthony Blunt - Soviet spy | 2019-09-20 | ||
| CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia | 2019-09-19 | ||
| Free breakfast with the Black Panthers | 2019-09-18 | ||
| The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell' | 2019-09-17 |