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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• Mexico's miracle water
• Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis
• The Peter Principle
• Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune
• The earthquake that devastated Haiti
• The lost king of France
• The Attica prison rebellion
• 9/11: The backlash against American Muslims
• America attacks Afghanistan
• With the president on 9/11
• The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud
• The warnings before 9/11
• North Korea's founding father
• The businessman who defied the Mafia
• Surviving the fall of Saigon
• The first modern electric car
• Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'
• Syria's rebel poet
• Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities
• My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
• John Maynard Keynes
• When The Queen met Ceaușescu
• Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages
• India's secret freedom radio
• US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon
• The man who coined the term genocide
• Inside an East German jail
• East Germany's nudists
• Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann
• Escaping from East Berlin