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 Chernobyl nuclear disaster
• The Shard
• Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center
• Teheran's Freedom Tower
• Chandigarh: India's city of the future
• The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
• The Wages for Housework campaign
• Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
• The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
• Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
• The takeover of NTV in Russia
• Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation
• Putin's war in Chechnya
• Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia
• The 2014 annexation of Crimea
• The death of Trayvon Martin
• The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2
• Nixon in China
• The first sex worker strike
• The world's first civil union
• Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama
• The Berlin Patient
• "Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces
• The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
• The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
• Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
• Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
• The invention of Google Maps
• The demise of the Soviet Union
• The first Emirati female teacher