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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• How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
• The missing people of Cyprus
• Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
• Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
• Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
• Arrested for playing football in Brazil
• Italy's 'poison ships'
• The 1968 Mexico City massacre
• The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
• How the air fryer was invented
• Conservative wipe-out in Canada
• Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
• Georgia’s political crisis
• Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
• Subway Art: The graffiti bible
• I designed Hello Kitty
• The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
• Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
• Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
• The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
• Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
• The first mega cruise ship
• The beginning of Benidorm
• How Cancún became a tourist destination
• The first budget transatlantic flights
• Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
• Kielland disaster
• The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
• Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
• Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters