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 paper that helped the homeless
• Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike
• Francis Bacon in the archives
• DES Daughters
• General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel
• Drugs in the Vietnam War
• The Burma uprising of 1988
• The Moscow State Circus
• The first Eurostar from England to France
• The anthem of the Arab Spring
• Libya's Arab uprising
• Yemen's 2011 uprising
• Syria in the Arab Spring
• Egypt's Facebook Girl
• Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs
• Kenya's pioneering publisher
• The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred
• Hitler's beer hall putsch
• Landing on Titan
• Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer
• Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol
• When Spain's parliament was stormed
• The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster
• Sequencing the Ebola virus genome
• The 'strike' in space
• Buddhists and death row
• The oldest song in the world
• Saving the Great Barrier Reef
• Le Corbusier and Chandigarh
• The building of the Aswan Dam