Witness History

Witness History is a short BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through first-hand testimony and archive. Each weekday, in around nine minutes, we revisit one moment that helped shape the world and...

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• 'I survived Typhoon Haiyan'
• The first Day of the Dead parade
• George Michael's Outside: The story behind the video
• Mexico's life-saving warning system
• Britain's real ale revolution
• Bonn v Berlin: How Germany chose its capital
• The Siege of Paris
• The Hungarian Revolution
• Keith Haring’s Berlin Wall mural
• Malta’s divorce referendum
• How Ten Canoes made cinema history
• Gerald Durrell's mission to save species from extinction
• Manchester City’s inflatable banana craze
• Declaring chimpanzees an endangered species
• When Dian Fossey was murdered
• Washoe: The chimp who learnt to sign
• Harry Harlow's monkey attachment studies
• The first monkeys to survive space travel
• The most successful Paralympian in history
• The boy behind the creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh books
• How rats were trained to clear landmines
• The mirrors that lit up a dark Norwegian town
• Egypt’s President Sadat is assassinated
• The Peruvian pilots who secretly delivered fighter jets during the Falklands War
• The first Rubik's Cube world champion
• Boer War: Siege of Ladysmith
• The Dead Sea Scrolls
• The contraceptive pill gets legalised in Japan
• Sulawesi's cave art and the origins of storytelling
• The birth of Jodrell Bank