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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• How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
• 9/11: The generosity of Gander
• The story behind The Peter Principle book
• The Enabling Act
• Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture
• ‘How I sold my clothes and created a $5 billion Vinted empire’
• World's first womb transplant baby
• The Chindits
• The founding of USAID
• Discovering the Titanic
• John Lennon's final headline concerts
• The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
• Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
• Creating CAPTCHA
• The creation of the International Criminal Court
• Geneva Conventions
• The rise and fall of BlackBerry
• The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
• One man’s escape from McCarthyism
• Spot the Dog
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
• Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
• Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
• Borobudur Temple
• The Santa Cruz Massacre
• 1965 Singaporean independence
• Brazil’s biggest bank heist
• The Assam-Tibet earthquake
• When Stalin silenced Shostakovich
• Nagasaki bomb