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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• Captured by Somali pirates
• The 'good enough' mother
• When Pluto lost its planet status
• World War One in Africa
• Makaton - the signing system that changes lives
• The Guerrilla Girls
• The church that rose from the rubble
• The 1945 Pan-African Congress
• The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
• 'I just wanted to be white'
• The sex musical that wowed New York and London
• With the president on 9/11
• Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
• The Watergate scandal
• Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
• When JFK won the US presidency
• Nasa's pioneering black women
• The missing victims of apartheid
• The Cutter Incident
• Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
• Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
• Saddam Hussein's big movie project
• The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
• The last of the Kazakh herders
• The end of the Lebanese Civil War
• The launch of CNN
• The Battle of Lewisham
• Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain
• Fighting racism on the dancefloor
• Britain's first black woman headteacher