<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 | ||
| When Tunisia led on women's rights | 2019-07-25 | ||
| The Chappaquiddick Incident | 2019-07-24 | ||
| LGBT 'cooperative' marriages in China | 2019-07-23 | ||
| Mamma Mia! | 2019-07-22 | ||
| The Beagle 2 mission to Mars | 2019-07-19 | ||
| Apollo 13 | 2019-07-18 | ||
| The Moon Landing | 2019-07-17 | ||
| Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut | 2019-07-16 | ||
| Laika, the first dog in space | 2019-07-15 | ||
| Kenya's ivory inferno | 2019-07-12 | ||
| Cuba executes top military officers | 2019-07-11 | ||
| The Common Cold Unit | 2019-07-10 | ||
| China puts tampons on sale | 2019-07-09 | ||
| The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack' | 2019-07-08 | ||
| The indigenous fight to stop nuclear waste disposal | 2019-07-05 | ||
| The launch of the Walkman | 2019-07-04 | ||
| Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields' | 2019-07-03 | ||
| Germans kidnapped by Nicaragua's rebels | 2019-07-02 | ||
| The US judge accused of sexual harassment | 2019-07-01 | ||
| Defending a British serial murderer | 2019-06-28 |