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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• Rape as a weapon in Bangladesh
• The birth of Bangladesh
• The Bengali language movement
• The explosion heard by millions
• The Aldi kidnap
• Spies or plane-spotters?
• The V2 rocket
• Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police
• Derek Jarman
• South Africa and Aids drugs
• AZT: The breakthrough treatment for Aids
• The early days of HIV/Aids
• The Aids 'patient zero' myth
• The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
• Estonia’s internet ‘Tiger Leap’
• The doctor who helped her mother to die
• Europe's last smallpox epidemic
• The Woman in Gold by Gustav Klimt
• Sudan's October Revolution
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• The capture of war criminal Radovan Karadzic
• Kuwaiti oil fires of 1991
• Shoot: A milestone in performance art
• The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
• Spying in Berlin
• Chanel No. 5
• Britain's Black Schools
• When Eritrea silenced its critics
• The end of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
• The enduring legend of Fu Manchu