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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• 'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• How the QR code was invented
• The world's first general purpose electronic computer
• WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
• Eliza: When chatbots started
• The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
• The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
• South Africa’s nuclear weapons
• Cambodia war crimes
• Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass
• The Estonia ferry disaster
• South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage
• Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa
• Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
• India's Mars Orbiter Mission
• Designing the Google logo
• The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
• India’s plague outbreak
• Camouflaging Leningrad
• The invention of the CT scanner
• When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk
• Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'
• Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
• Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
• Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown
• Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler
• Apollo 13
• The end of the Irish marriage bar
• Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover'
• I led the 'Umbrella' protests