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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• Demolishing the Babri Masjid
• Quebec’s 1995 referendum
• Miss World protest
• The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag
• The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on
• CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry
• Mombasa terror attacks
• How cat's eyes were invented
• The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim
• When Sweden’s roads went right
• First women’s minister in Iran
• The invention of the seat belt
• Qatar's first female published author
• First Emirati female teacher
• Inventing robot camel jockeys
• Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building
• Formation of the United Arab Emirates
• The child evacuees of World War Two
• Māori protests stops South African rugby tour
• The assassination of Pim Fortuyn
• First rape crisis centres in the US
• Polynesian Panthers
• Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme
• Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher
• Campaigning against sex-selection in India
• Albania’s Stalinist purges
• The Little Black Book survival guide
• Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech
• Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan
• Theatre siege in Moscow