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 mystery of the disappearing frogs
• The killing of Osama Bin Laden
• The story of George Stinney Jr
• The woman who negotiated peace with a rebel group
• Storming the Stasi HQ
• Britain's National Trust
• The battle for Fallujah
• The Computers for Schools revolution
• The murder of environmentalist Chico Mendes
• The exodus of Kashmiri Hindus
• German atrocities in Poland during WW2
• East Germany's punks
• Desmond's: A sitcom that changed Britain
• The book that predicted an end to civilisation
• Negotiating an end to El Salvador's civil war
• The Chippendales
• Vietnam war: Surviving the 'Christmas bombing' campaign
• Cirque du Soleil
• The secret history of Monopoly
• The invasion of Afghanistan
• Fighting cancer
• The creation of Abuja
• Bee crisis: Colony Collapse Disorder
• The Romanian revolution
• Women and the Sabarimala temple
• Black GIs during World War Two
• The attack on India's parliament
• The killing of Amadou Diallo
• The IRA siege at Balcombe Street
• The battle of the Louvre pyramid