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 Tangshan Earthquake
• Inventing nicotine patches
• The Surkov leaks
• Ukraine's Revolution on Granite
• Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco
• The Soviet James Bond
• Who shot JR?
• Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cookery’
• The school for telenovela stars
• Fighting for the pill in Japan
• The man who invented the Pill
• When Tunisia led on women's rights
• Poland's strict abortion law
• How abortion was legalised in Great Britain
• The US’s first gay election candidate
• How the smear test was invented
• Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
• Japanese university student riots
• The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works
• Hong Kong: Abandoned children
• Hong Kong - Kowloon Walled City
• Hong Kong: The 5-19 football riot in China
• Hong Kong: Democracy campaigner
• Hong Kong: The handover
• The UK's first official gay Pride March
• Egypt's first democratic presidential election
• The killing of Vincent Chin
• Robot Surgeon
• India's surrogacy capital
• Cambodia war crimes