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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• Marie Kondo
• Creating Alexa
• Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
• Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
• Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
• Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
• Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
• 'Kimchi war'
• Chef to five presidents
• When instant noodles came to India
• 'I created MasterChef'
• Australian republic referendum
• Poland's bleak Christmas
• Ceefax: the start of interactive television
• Surviving Andes plane crash
• Peshawar school massacre
• The birth of reggaeton
• The handover of the Panama Canal
• The Purple Heart Warriors
• Castro's Cuban revolution attempt
• India’s 1998 nuclear tests
• Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism
• The ‘Three Marias’
• The discovery that led to Covid vaccines
• Gloria Steinem: The start of Ms. Magazine
• The end of the US HIV travel ban
• The deepest man-made hole in the world
• Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
• The Iran-Contra Affair
• Strictly Come Dancing