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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• The man who invented the scratch card
• GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity
• The UK’s first black-owned music studio
• Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
• The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia
• My aunt created The Moomins
• Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones
• The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky
• Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction
• Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir
• How BRICS got its name
• Japan surrenders in Beijing
• The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away
• 'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'
• The home video war
• The acquittal of OJ Simpson
• 'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
• The strike that shook up India's tea industry
• The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
• The Cradock Four killings
• Guinea stadium massacre
• The secretary who made millions from her typos
• DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
• The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières
• The start of Scouting
• Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
• The Aswan High Dam
• Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
• Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
• Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president