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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• Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
• Wounded Knee siege
• When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
• Families interned in WW2 China
• The invention of Semtex
• Seggae riots in Mauritius
• Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin
• First winter ascent of Everest
• Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb
• 'I developed Pokémon'
• First Danish queen for 600 years
• 'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted
• 'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'
• The Pope and Jews
• Pope John Paul I’s sudden death
• Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II
• How a Pope is chosen
• The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye
• Columbia space shuttle disaster
• Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'
• Palestine Post bombing
• Invention of the MP3
• Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner
• Smolensk air disaster
• Japanese death row guard
• When Britain tried to censor the Troubles in Northern Ireland
• Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy
• France's nuclear tests in Algeria
• Kosovo’s house schools
• Europe's horse meat scandal