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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• Escaping from East Berlin
• The building of the Berlin Wall
• Gay activism in 1990s India
• Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves
• Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
• Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
• Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer
• The Tsunami and Fukushima
• Fighting for the pill in Japan
• The soldier who never surrendered
• The birth of Karaoke
• Japan's Bullet Train
• When war came to Darfur
• Surviving Norway's day of terror
• The Battle of Gondar
• Domestic violence in Brazil
• England's summer of riots
• When the Taliban took Kabul
• Jane Goodall and chimpanzees
• Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution
• The race for the jet engine
• The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
• The first World Romani Congress
• The famine in North Korea
• Britain's wartime gold
• Cuba's blindness epidemic
• China's trailblazing foreign students
• The Chinese Communist Party
• The Syrian playwright who challenged the regime
• Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings