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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• Intervision Song Contest
• Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
• VE Day celebrations
• Sinking of the Lusitania
• The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
• Conclave: How a new pope is chosen
• Snake: Popularising mobile gaming
• Ten countries join the EU in one night
• The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War
• Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975
• Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle
• The death of Adolf Hitler
• Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
• Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'
• The creation of YouTube
• Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
• The origin of World Book Day
• Clearing landmines in Cambodia
• The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
• The invention of the white LED lightbulb
• The Bali Nine drug smuggling case
• Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
• Oklahoma City bombing
• Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
• The Reichstag fire
• The UN retreat from Somalia
• Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
• JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
• The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
• The invention of superglue