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 tortoise and the hippo
• Kenya's power-sharing deal
• The last of the Mau Mau fighters
• Treetops: The day a princess became a queen
• Finding the den of the Tsavo man-eaters
• The origins of the all-inclusive holiday
• When Taiwan’s ‘White Terror’ ended
• Ashley Kriel: South Africa's anti-apartheid 'Che Guevara'
• The first carbon offset
• City of God: The film that reshaped global cinema
• The cellist who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau
• 'I organised the first Comic Con'
• Sweden's summer shutdown
• The last execution by garrote: Salvador Puig Antich
• Creating Africa’s largest film festival
• The first solar-powered flight around the world
• Unveiling the face of Crazy Horse
• How a Peruvian instrument revolutionised flamenco
• Mexico’s ‘little old lady killer’
• The British love of tea (from Here for The History)
• A child's return to Franco's Spain
• Birkin bag: Creating fashion’s iconic accessory
• Turkey’s failed coup
• Creating Canada’s largest territory
• The Kiss of Life photo that earned a Pulitzer Prize
• Dada: The birth of an art movement
• South Sudan celebrates independence
• Seveso Disaster
• The immigrant workers who refused to pay rent in 1970s France
• The making of Oasis’ Wonderwall