<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 | ||
| Botswana's Diamonds | 2017-11-17 | ||
| The 'Disappeared' of Lebanon | 2017-11-16 | ||
| The Windmill Theatre | 2017-11-15 | ||
| The British Love Affair with Curry | 2017-11-14 | ||
| The Exploding Whale | 2017-11-13 | ||
| World War One: Ordinary Lives | 2017-11-10 | ||
| Laika the Space Dog | 2017-11-08 | ||
| The Russian Revolution: The Bolsheviks Take Control | 2017-11-07 | ||
| Osama Bin Laden's Last Interview | 2017-11-06 | ||
| The Naked Ape | 2017-11-03 | ||
| The Case That Saved Sex on the Internet | 2017-11-02 | ||
| Oscar Niemeyer's Forgotten Masterpiece | 2017-11-01 | ||
| Martin Luther's 95 Theses | 2017-10-31 | ||
| The Murder of Brazil's Leading Journalist | 2017-10-30 | ||
| A Literary Love Affair | 2017-10-27 | ||
| The Death of Dele Giwa | 2017-10-26 | ||
| The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives | 2017-10-25 | ||
| Private Eye | 2017-10-24 | ||
| Romania's Abortion Ban | 2017-10-23 | ||
| The 43 Group: Battling British Fascism | 2017-10-20 |