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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• Creation of the UFC
• Lord of the Flies
• Handover of Macau
• The Siege of Yarmouk
• Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
• German naturists
• Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
• India's capsule coal mine rescue
• How Greece got rid of their king
• The Pakistan mountain massacre
• The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
• The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
• The Shah of Iran's party
• In exile from Iran
• Iran hostage crisis
• Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
• Brazil’s electronic voting
• The Ken Burns Effect
• Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator
• The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
• My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
• Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
• Ethiopia's 1984 famine
• I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
• The fight to stop skin lightening in India
• Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
• Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
• Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
• The Rose Revolution in Georgia
• The Sunflower Movement