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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• Queen of the 'fro
• First internet cafe
• The Arctic’s doomsday seed vault
• Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
• Silenced by the Vatican
• Jack Strong aka Ryszard Kukliński: Cold War traitor or hero?
• The Hungarian footballer executed for love
• Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?
• Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis
• Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor
• Jamuna Tudu: The real life 'Lady Tarzan'
• Ibadan Zoo
• Tortured in Iran's Evin Prison
• The Green March: Moroccans take over the Sahara
• The hunger-striking Bolivian president
• Gürtel scandal: Spain's Watergate
• The first World Laughter Day
• Russian ballerina defects to the west
• The mystery of France's lost king
• The world’s first lesbian couple to get married
• What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec
• The Hindenburg airship disaster
• The invention of the wingsuit
• Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone
• Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe
• Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery'
• The disputed history of pad Thai
• Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food
• Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit
• Inventing Nutella