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 fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
• The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
• The death of Frida Kahlo
• Montreal's 'Night of Terror'
• The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
• The doctor who discovered how cholera spread
• How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams
• The lost Nazi-era art trove
• Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
• The Rolling Stones drugs trial
• Jana Andolan – Nepal’s people power movement
• Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism
• The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys'
• Tanzania's socialist experiment
• South Korea's economic miracle
• The New Deal
• The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise
• The friendship train
• Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
• Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution
• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief
• Three Strikes Law
• Rodney King and the LA riots
• Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
• The 16th Street church bombing
• Brown v the Board of Education
• The portable defibrillator
• The origin of the WHO
• How Christo wrapped the Reichstag
• The Zanzibar Revolution