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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• Jackie Kennedy renovates the White House
• Restoring the Statue of Liberty
• KCOR: The first Spanish-language radio station in the US
• Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• The final journey of Chief Long Wolf
• Hawaii becomes the 50th American state
• Rata de dos patas: Mexico’s famous insult song
• WW1: The Battle of the Somme
• How Aussies taught kids to stay safe in the sun
• Brexit: Ireland watches the vote unfold
• China detains Hong Kong booksellers
• The discovery of Lyme disease
• The discovery of Mungo Man
• Women Walk Home: Cyprus' forgotten peace march
• 50 years since the Soweto Uprising
• The Georgian exodus from Abkhazia
• Hussein of Jordan: The survivor king
• The inspiration for Chekhov's Three Sisters
• Picasso and the Surrealist summer
• Mstislav Rostropovich: Virtuoso cellist
• Nelson Mandela's incarceration at Robben Island
• The creation of Inspector Montalbano
• The protests that sparked the Tiananmen Square massacre
• Australia's first Big Thing
• The first Irish language television channel
• Recording the Eichmann interviews
• Filming Titanic in Mexico
• I escaped Mexico's deadly gas explosion
• I fought for Mexico’s indigenous women to get political equality
• Mexico: The election that ended one‑party rule