<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 | ||
| WWI: The Hundred Days Offensive | 2018-09-07 | ||
| From Leningrad to St Petersburg | 2018-09-06 | ||
| Living Under Gaddafi | 2018-09-05 | ||
| The Battle for Brick Lane | 2018-09-04 | ||
| The First MRI Scan | 2018-09-03 | ||
| Surviving the "Death Railway" | 2018-08-31 | ||
| The Mine Disaster That Devastated Post-War Italy | 2018-08-30 | ||
| The Lake Nyos Disaster | 2018-08-29 | ||
| Hitler's League Of German Girls | 2018-08-28 | ||
| Benidorm | 2018-08-27 | ||
| Hitler's Architect | 2018-08-24 | ||
| Baba of Karo | 2018-08-23 | ||
| USSR Wages War on Alcohol | 2018-08-22 | ||
| Prague Spring | 2018-08-21 | ||
| The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis | 2018-08-20 | ||
| The Invention of Instant Noodles | 2018-08-17 | ||
| When TV Came To South Africa | 2018-08-16 | ||
| Photographing Martin Luther King and His Family | 2018-08-14 | ||
| Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner | 2018-08-13 | ||
| Israel's Secret Peace Envoy | 2018-08-09 |