<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 first human Cyborg | 2019-08-19 | ||
| Dr Seuss: the man who taught America to read | 2019-08-16 | ||
| Catching 'Carlos the Jackal' | 2019-08-15 | ||
| The warnings before 9/11 | 2019-08-14 | ||
| The daily disposable contact lens | 2019-08-13 | ||
| The division of Kashmir | 2019-08-12 | ||
| The Yangtze Incident | 2019-08-09 | ||
| British troops take to the streets of Northern Ireland | 2019-08-08 | ||
| Criminals in the community | 2019-08-07 | ||
| Under the North Pole | 2019-08-06 | ||
| The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs' | 2019-08-05 | ||
| The invasion of Kuwait | 2019-08-02 | ||
| The Warsaw uprising | 2019-08-01 | ||
| The anti-nuclear protesters who won | 2019-07-31 | ||
| The treasures of Sutton Hoo | 2019-07-30 | ||
| The death of David Kelly | 2019-07-29 | ||
| Humanity's earliest ancestor | 2019-07-26 | ||
| When Tunisia led on women's rights | 2019-07-25 | ||
| The Chappaquiddick Incident | 2019-07-24 | ||
| LGBT 'cooperative' marriages in China | 2019-07-23 |