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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• When tourism came to the Maldives
• The National Health Service begins
• Longest-serving democratically elected communist government
• The trial of John Demjanjuk
• I made Lady Gaga's meat dress
• The 'graveyard' for communist statues
• Sampoong department store disaster
• First reports of Ebola
• JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
• My dad played golf on the moon
• The Empire Windrush arrives
• Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub
• The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
• Uprising in East Germany
• Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
• Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine
• Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer
• A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo
• Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
• 1955 Le Mans disaster
• Last communist march before Hitler
• Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder
• Inuit children taken from families
• The first Indian woman to conquer Everest
• Tragedy on Everest
• Mallory on Everest
• Tenzing Norgay conquers Everest
• Edmund Hillary conquers Everest
• The deadliest glacial avalanche in the world
• Trying to unite Africa