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...

Avsnitt

• Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile
• Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships
• Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
• Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid
• South Africa's referendum on apartheid
• Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
• Deadly Everest avalanche
• West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
• The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
• Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
• Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender
• St Teresa of Avila's severed hand
• The Scream: A stolen masterpiece
• How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
• The 2010 Kampala bombings
• Bonus: The Black 14
• Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day
• The Bluetooth story
• Sweden's pioneering paternity leave
• The man who invented the seat belt
• Fifty years of Abba
• Surviving the Rwandan genocide
• The founding of Nato
• Britain's first beach for nudists
• The Heimlich Manoeuvre
• Britain's Mirpuri migration
• Wham! in China
• Discovering the Terracotta Army
• The 'comfort women' of World War Two
• Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution