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 Jewish exodus from Iraq
• Legalising contraception in Ireland
• Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
• The Great Wine Fraud
• Ursula Le Guin
• The IRA hunger strikes
• How Amsterdam became the cannabis smoking capital of Europe
• The killing of Osama Bin Laden
• The battle of Tora Bora
• The Nairobi US Embassy bombing
• Meeting Osama bin Laden
• The siege of Mecca
• The first space shuttle mission
• How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
• The Raymond Davis Incident
• The return of Blue Lake
• The Eichmann trial
• China's 'Kingdom of women'
• The vultures saved from extinction
• Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
• How a worm helped explain human development
• The US Supreme Court's first woman justice
• Discovering the Jet Stream
• From Leningrad to St Petersburg
• David Attenborough's First Expedition
• Mexico's female serial killer
• The women who reclaimed the night
• Black Jesus
• Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
• Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview