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 voyage of the Empire Windrush
• The house by the lake
• Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales
• The founding of Google
• The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
• The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser
• Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000
• Blackwater killed my son
• When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit
• How Liberia wrote off its debts
• The Galileo project
• The mothers of Argentina's disappeared
• Tank Man
• The Mau Mau struggle against British rule
• Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus
• Why the US rejected universal healthcare
• Banning alcohol in an Indian state
• The birth of Reddit
• The Dawson's Field hijacking
• Haiti's cholera outbreak
• Care in the Community
• The Cape Town bombings
• The birth of the Sony Walkman
• Flying through a volcano
• Inventing James Bond
• Who has the right to vote in America?
• St Kilda
• Occupy Wall Street
• America's first woman combat pilot
• Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer