<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 | ||
| Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing | 2018-10-05 | ||
| The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary | 2018-10-04 | ||
| The Invention of Artificial Skin | 2018-10-03 | ||
| The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil | 2018-10-02 | ||
| Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine | 2018-10-01 | ||
| The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark | 2018-09-28 | ||
| Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War | 2018-09-27 | ||
| The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine | 2018-09-26 | ||
| Isadora Duncan - Dance Pioneer | 2018-09-25 | ||
| The South African Army In Lesotho | 2018-09-24 | ||
| Brazil's Nuclear Accident | 2018-09-21 | ||
| The Arnhem Parachute Drop | 2018-09-20 | ||
| The Battle of Algiers | 2018-09-20 | ||
| The Cuban Five | 2018-09-18 | ||
| The Fifteen Guinea Special | 2018-09-17 | ||
| The Truth About Crop Circles | 2018-09-14 | ||
| How I Survived a Fire on a Plane | 2018-09-13 | ||
| The Killing of Steve Biko | 2018-09-12 | ||
| Appeasement | 2018-09-11 | ||
| The Ship that Dumped America's Waste | 2018-09-10 |