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 Mexican song that captivated lovers during World War II
• Canada's worst E.coli outbreak
• Montenegro votes for independence
• Exposing King Albert II's secret child
• Poland’s underground newspaper
• The Sami protest song that made Eurovision history
• When Sweden invented the reality game show
• Uncovering a lost burial ground in Rio
• The fossil that revealed the first dinosaur feathers
• Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• Sir David Attenborough's first Zoo Quest
• Africa's worst stadium disaster
• Finding the world’s most complete T-rex fossil
• Norway's WWII railway sabotage plot
• Nuns killed in Algeria
• The origins of World Press Freedom Day
• Inside the Cuban thaw
• Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment
• Car-free Sundays during the global oil crisis
• The world's first perfume archive
• The Tabasco floods
• The clean-up of Chernobyl
• Canada's war in the woods
• Europe’s long drought of 2011
• Mymba Kuera: The race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam
• Discovering Hans Christian Andersen's 'lost fairytale'
• The introduction of Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia
• The assassination of Thomas Sankara
• Roddy Doyle writes Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
• The creation of My Little Pony