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 hippo and the tortoise
• Destruction of Mostar Bridge
• The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
• Debbie McGee in Iran
• Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
• Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour
• Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
• Inventing the black box
• The discovery of the HIV virus
• The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon
• Turkey: Gezi Park protests
• 'The streets of Harare were littered with money'
• The 1993 MAD hijack
• The 1980 Turkey coup
• The first Bosphorus Bridge
• Osmondmania
• Launching Lagos Fashion Week
• Mexico’s murdered women
• Rana Plaza building collapse
• Cambodian peace walk
• Surviving an acid attack and changing the law
• Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power
• Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag
• The 84-year-old primary school pupil
• Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
• Protectors of the Amazon
• The Amoco Cadiz oil spill
• Nigeria strikes oil
• The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan
• The oil crisis of 1973