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 Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
• Saving lives on D-Day
• The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
• Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
• ‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
• The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
• The Flint water crisis
• The first Aboriginal MP
• The first ever quintuplets
• Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'
• How Air Jordans were created
• Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection
• Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession
• How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world
• Bata: Pioneering shoemakers
• When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught
• Baghdad heavy metal
• How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia
• The creation of the state of Israel
• The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians
• Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal
• How a billion Indians got a digital ID
• The pioneering eye surgery that led to Lasik
• East Germany's coffee from Vietnam
• Friends: The making of a smash hit
• The Channel Tunnel breakthrough
• Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'
• How to win friends and influence people
• How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world
• Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay