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 world's longest kiss
• Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
• Paul Keating's Redfern speech
• Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
• Eisenhower's farewell address
• La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish Civil War
• Heathers: The making of a cult classic
• The first global case of coral bleaching
• Cuban blindness
• Oradour massacre
• Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
• English TV lessons in China go primetime
• 1968 New York City teachers' strike
• Lithuania's 'wolf children'
• The Baltic chain protest
• The Milltown Cemetery attack
• The launch of Windows 95
• Replacing the Panchen Lama
• The murder of Maurizio Gucci
• Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
• Hunting the Unabomber
• Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
• 'I wrote Schindler's List'
• Kobe earthquake
• Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
• Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
• The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
• The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
• The invention of the hotel key card
• Charlie Hebdo attack