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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• Womenomics in Japan
• Freeing American prisoners from Iran
• The last smallpox outbreak
• The rebel nuns who left their convent behind
• The first mobile phone call
• An Antarctic mystery
• Saving Antarctica
• Saddam Hussein's 'Supergun'
• Fighting oil pollution with art in Nigeria
• How meditation changes your brain
• The Pale Blue Dot
• The Rules: A dating handbook
• The best-seller Fear of Flying
• Diary of life in a favela
• The man who first published Harry Potter
• Chairman Mao's Little Red Book
• The release of Nelson Mandela
• The Native American casino boom in the US
• Witnessing the birth of a new language
• Cixi: China's most powerful woman
• London's first black policeman
• The Treaty of Rome
• The first self-made female millionaire
• The ancient oak tree that taught the world a lesson
• Reforming India's rape laws
• The Way Ahead group: Modernising the Royal Family
• The frozen zoo
• The discovery of whalesong
• Silent Spring: A book that changed the world
• How the dodo died out