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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• China's LGBT 'cooperative marriages'
• The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'
• Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in Côte d’Ivoire
• The Stonewall Inn
• China's 'Economic Miracle'
• The Trabant
• The police rape interview that shocked Britain
• The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race
• Mindfulness for the masses
• The Fall of Madrid
• The elections that Hamas won
• Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
• Tunisia’s legal brothels
• When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
• How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic
• Afghanistan's poppy problem
• When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers
• The killing of Pablo Escobar
• The war on drugs
• The Tulsa Race Massacre
• Rock concert for Chernobyl
• Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend
• The first Arab woman pilot
• The strike that shocked India
• Fighting forced marriage in war
• Saving the world's wetlands
• Striking in South Korea in 1980
• When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound
• China's Democracy Wall
• The trial of South Africa’s 'Dr Death'