<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 Climbers of Leningrad | 2017-12-28 | ||
| The First Kwanzaa | 2017-12-26 | ||
| Trivial Pursuit | 2017-12-25 | ||
| To Kill A Mockingbird | 2017-12-22 | ||
| BR Ambedkar | 2017-12-21 | ||
| The Exam That Changed China | 2017-12-20 | ||
| The Development of WiFi | 2017-12-19 | ||
| Somalia's Islamic Courts Union | 2017-12-18 | ||
| The Disappearance of Harold Holt | 2017-12-15 | ||
| Otis Redding | 2017-12-14 | ||
| The Great London Smog | 2017-12-14 | ||
| The Unsung Hero of Heart Surgery | 2017-12-13 | ||
| Hypnotising Saddam's Son | 2017-12-11 | ||
| Art in Revolutionary Russia | 2017-12-08 | ||
| The Discovery of Whale Song | 2017-12-07 | ||
| Finland Wins Independence From Russia | 2017-12-06 | ||
| Britain's withdrawal from South Yemen | 2017-12-05 | ||
| Mount Rushmore | 2017-12-04 | ||
| Science City in Siberia | 2017-12-01 | ||
| The Poisoning of Litvinenko | 2017-11-30 |