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 Candelaria child massacre
• Building of Brasilia
• The murder that shocked Brazil
• Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy
• Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya
• Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika
• Princess Diana dances with John Travolta
• The 'Last Indian'
• Marikana Massacre
• India's onion election
• The 'Nixon Shock' and the end of the Gold Standard
• The Gay Games
• Hundreds die in Darayya
• Bulgaria's cash crisis
• The Bard of Bengal
• The death of Jawaharlal Nehru
• The last Viceroy of India
• India's Partition - Part Two
• India's Partition - Part One
• The nightclub that changed Ibiza
• Discovering Hale Bopp
• Indonesia's forest fires
• Sweden’s pronoun battle
• The resignation of President Nixon
• The return of Asians to Uganda
• The city shaped by Ugandan Asians
• The exodus of Asians from Uganda
• When Asians were forced to leave Kenya
• Why Asians came to Uganda
• The Leaflet Bomber