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 bad boy of Welsh politics'
• Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt
• The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda
• The assassination of King Faisal
• Tsunami devastates Samoa
• The funeral of Nelson Mandela
• Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
• Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
• Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
• Murder of the Romanovs
• The release of DOOM
• ‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
• A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
• Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets
• La Haine: The film that shocked France
• World's first solar-heated home
• Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
• Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths
• The bird that defied extinction
• Cabbage Patch Kids
• The Mumbai attacks
• The Paris heatwave
• Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
• The invention of bubble tea
• The independence of Zambia
• Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
• The Bolivian Water War
• Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
• Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
• The invention of the EpiPen