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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• Chasing the world’s biggest tornado
• Fikret Alić
• The sergeants' coup in Suriname
• Pippi Longstocking
• Creating New Zealand's national walking trail
• The Dambusters
• German child evacuees of World War Two
• Singapore executes Filipina maid
• World War II victory in North Africa
• Warsaw Ghetto uprising
• The last commercial flight out of Kai Tak
• The sinking of the SS Tilawa: the ‘Indian Titanic’
• United States bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
• The removal of Scotland's Stone of Destiny
• Last King of Bulgaria
• The 'execution' of Oliver Cromwell
• Jean-Bédel Bokassa's coronation
• The king under the car park
• The fight to televise the Queen's Coronation
• The Met Gala goes global
• Guatemala's outspoken bishop
• Discovering the secrets of DNA
• Althea McNish: 'I designed fabrics for the Queen'
• The Russian man who pretended to be a dog
• Smoky the World War II dog hero
• The world's first labradoodle
• The first dog in space
• Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen
• I led the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers
• Mass grave at Sernyky