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 universal recycling symbol
• Emperor Tewodros II
• The Good Friday Agreement referendum
• Beto Perez: 'I created Zumba by accident'
• Awaji Kannon: One of the world's tallest statues
• Pan-European picnic
• Escaping national service in Eritrea
• A Brief History of Time
• The first photo sent from a phone
• Godfather of manicures
• How Bengaluru became India’s Silicon Valley
• The windmill that revolutionised wind power
• Keiko: Freeing 'Free Willy'
• The man who lived in an airport
• DDLJ: India’s longest running movie
• Alcatraz: The strangest escape
• Kieu Chinh: A real Hollywood story
• Iraq War: US security guards killed my son
• Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein
• Iraq War: 'Most wanted' playing cards
• Iraq War: Refugees escaping
• Iraq War: The beginning
• From a goddess to a graduate
• Monica McWilliams’ role in the Northern Ireland peace process
• First all-women peacekeeping unit
• Mexico's first female presidential hopeful
• Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
• Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
• The museum at the end of the world
• Grenada's underwater sculpture park