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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• Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
• The siege at Ruby Ridge
• The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution
• The Guatemalan syphilis scandal
• The first modern asthma inhaler
• The lost King of England
• Surviving Saddam
• The invention of the modern ventilator
• Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey
• Beirut's Hotel War
• Bremen’s Elephant Statue
• Radar and World War Two
• The atomic bombs dropped on Japan
• The battle of Midway
• The internment of Japanese Americans
• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
• The death of Heinrich Himmler
• Benidorm and the birth of package tourism
• Adrift for 76 days
• Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires
• The writer who put Latinos centre stage
• The fastest vaccine ever developed
• The first safe house for Afghan women
• The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests
• The Million Man March
• The man who tried to kill Hitler
• South Korea's 1980s prison camps
• The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors
• Returning Ethiopia's looted history
• How Club Med changed holidays