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 'ghost town' of Namibia
• The father of Ethio-Jazz
• Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
• The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
• Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
• The Germanwings plane crash
• The visionary behind the European Space Agency
• The historic handshake in space
• In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
• First spacewalk
• The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
• Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
• The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
• The Capitol Crawl
• King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
• The invention of GPS
• How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
• The Great Toyota War
• The US invasion of Panama
• The invention of the shopping trolley
• The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
• Africa’s stolen Metis children
• Surviving Chile's tsunami
• Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
• The Nellie massacre
• Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
• Assassination of Malcolm X
• Murder at the Berlin Wall
• Bolivia’s first indigenous president
• Bo: The death of a language