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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• James Joyce and Ulysses
• New York's LGBT High School
• Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl'
• Holy Cross school dispute
• The Gulabi Gang
• How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
• Saving Gabon's rainforest
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The assassination of Bobby Kennedy
• The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
• Sarin attack in Syria
• Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world
• Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells
• The attack on Lod Airport
• Georgia O'Keeffe
• The World Festival of Black Arts
• The museum of banned Russian art
• The last days of Frida Kahlo
• Meeting Picasso
• The murder of Kelso Cochrane
• Chasing the Marcos millions
• Shanghai at War
• The first McDonald's in Moscow
• People Power in the Philippines
• The war in Transnistria
• Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe
• China opens up to capitalism
• Soviet nuclear missile alert
• Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
• The chemistry of cannabis