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 Iranian Revolution and women
• Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand
• Founder of the Cuban National Ballet
• Cuba's boxing ban
• The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write
• Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
• Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
• Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
• Torturing strikers in South Korea
• Disney animators' strike
• UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’
• The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
• The Harder They Come
• The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
• The release of Gilad Shalit
• The funk and soul club that changed Manchester
• Dassler brothers’ rift
• The raising of the Mary Rose
• Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos
• The power of Jomo Kenyatta
• Festival of Light
• Iran-Iraq War begins
• The first Pope to visit Africa
• Ancient fossils give new insight
• World War Two child evacuees in Britain
• The last days of Queen Victoria
• When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace
• Windsor Castle fire
• Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Derby
• The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II