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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• Harold Riley: Painting Nelson Mandela
• Kinder Scout mass trespass
• The gathering that helped shape decolonisation
• ‘Baby’ computer is invented
• The nightclub that changed Manchester
• The discovery of the San José shipwreck
• The birth of India's call centre industry
• Stardust: Ireland's deadly nightclub fire
• Connecting homes to the internet using cable TV
• Norway’s teacher resistance in World War Two
• Firefighter: Surviving the 9/11 North Tower collapse
• The weather report that changed the date of D-Day
• Bayeux Tapestry: the lost Nazi archive
• The 'moving' statue of Ballinspittle
• Surviving the Long March
• Star Trek: America's first interracial TV kiss
• The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• ‘Genius’ sci-fi writer Octavia E Butler
• Making Turkish Star Wars
• How the Star Wars toys were created
• The hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73
• Hurricane Luis hits Antigua
• Peace People: The Northern Ireland campaign group born from tragedy
• Auschwitz: An SS officer’s photo album
• Uruguay's water referendum
• Defeating the screwworm
• 'I created the duck cake from Bluey'
• Canada's controversial resettlement programme
• The battle of Mandalay in WW2
• Asha Bhosle: The world's most recorded artist