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 Wizard of Oz: The stolen ruby slippers
• Judy Garland: The final shows
• Returning Benin Bronzes
• Iran: How the prime minister was overthrown in 1953
• The boy who discovered a new species of human ancestor
• Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene
• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal
• Sarajevo’s haven of peace
• The Great Train Robbery
• Brownie Wise: The creator of Tupperware parties
• Dinosaur in court
• Treehouse on the Berlin Wall
• Birth of a new language
• First dinosaur eggs identified in India
• José Mujica: Prison break to president
• Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway
• The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie
• The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit
• Brain: A personal computer virus
• Escaping the Nazis in Greece
• The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis
• The birth of Barbie
• Japan surrenders in China
• The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia
• Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’
• Creating the first emoji
• When disposable nappies were invented
• Inventing Rubik’s Cube
• Invention of the ballpoint pen
• A right royal night out