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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• When Skylab fell to Earth
• The last men on the Moon
• The first iPhone
• Nasa's female aquanauts
• The unlikely pioneers of online shopping
• The Trojan Room coffee pot
• The Homebrew computer club
• Being a Chinese Muslim
• The Swedish warship restored after 300 years
• Avenging the Amritsar Massacre
• The trembling giant
• Britain's first woman judge
• The AIDS Memorial Quilt
• The Cheonan sinking
• The Saudi bombardment of Yemen
• Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus
• The Chinese cure for malaria
• The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
• The 'I Love You' computer virus
• The Major and the VW Beetle
• Red Hollywood
• The fight to make sexual harassment a crime
• Marburg virus
• The SARS epidemic
• The polio vaccine
• The Ebola virus
• The 'Spanish' flu
• Battling Soviet psychiatric punishment
• Strikers in saris
• The petrol that was poisoning children