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 woman who spoke to the space station
• Guatemala's disappeared
• Waris Dirie
• The writer of Mary Poppins
• Canada’s first UFO landing pad
• Spain's La Tomatina
• India’s first female bartender
• Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
• Nazis in Egypt
• The celebrity murder case that divided France
• Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
• How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
• Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
• The last ever Olympic art competition
• Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
• The first televised US presidential debate
• President Richard Nixon resigns
• Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
• Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court
• The Situation Room photograph
• Ice Bucket Challenge
• The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia
• Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears
• Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
• The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
• The first cold chain vaccination storage system
• Building the Moscow Metro
• Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
• The first Olympic ‘mascot’
• The 1924 Paris Olympics