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 Gratitude Train: France thanks America
• Making Jaws
• The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
• Civil rights swim-in
• Charleston church shooting
• 'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
• The Schengen Agreement
• Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
• Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
• The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
• World War Two’s Rome escape line
• Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
• The discovery of the first exoplanets
• Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
• The world’s largest model train set
• Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
• The Battle of the Beanfield
• The legacy of The Pirate Bay
• Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
• The Tragically Hip's final gig
• 'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
• Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
• The founding of Magnum Photos
• Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
• Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
• Lunch atop a Skyscraper
• Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
• Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
• The founding of the Warsaw Pact
• Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals