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 day the world looked up
• The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
• The Good Friday Agreement
• IRA gun-running in America
• Bloody Sunday
• British troops in Northern Ireland
• A Cold War love affair
• The first bicycle-sharing scheme
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• The rise of Boko Haram
• The first silicone breast implants
• Costa Concordia
• Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
• Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
• India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose
• Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
• Marcel Proust
• The end of Stalinist rule in Albania
• The secret history of Monopoly
• Lego
• Grand Theft Auto: How the Scottish game outraged on release
• Tetris
• Pong and the birth of computer games
• The home of Santa Claus
• Bahrain's 2011 protests
• The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
• Rudolf Nureyev defects
• Tanzania's first elected albino MP
• Bangladesh wins independence
• On the front line in Bangladesh