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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• When the prisoners ran the prison
• Anorexia nervosa
• South Africa takes on big pharma
• The woman who got America talking about sex
• Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’
• The Ulster Workers' Strike
• The dirtiest chess match in history
• Mars-500 isolation experiment
• Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden
• Paris is Burning
• The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles
• Jane: The underground abortion network
• Cixi: China's most powerful woman
• The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
• Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
• The Sharpeville massacre
• When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home
• Refugee Island
• The world's deepest dive 11km down
• The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone
• The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
• Ireland's bank bailout
• Acid rain
• Mary Wilson
• Free breakfasts with the Black Panthers
• The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
• Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two
• Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one
• How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War
• A Ghanaian nurse's story