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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• Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
• The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
• Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
• Paraguay adopts its second language
• Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
• 11M: The day Madrid was bombed
• MH370: The plane that vanished
• Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
• The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
• French child evacuees of World War Two
• Uruguay v the tobacco giant
• The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada
• The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru
• The lost Czech scrolls
• Crimea's Soviet holiday camp
• Russia annexes Crimea
• Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts
• Columbus Lighthouse
• Trans murder in Honduras
• Icelandic women's strike
• The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs
• Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war
• The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’
• The Juliet letters
• Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress
• The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
• The Battle of Versailles: Catwalk clash of American and French fashion
• How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism
• Lucha Reyes: Peruvian music star
• A young mother saved from death by stoning