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 turtle freed after 41 years in captivity
• Khula Manch, the victory rally
• Hitler's teeth
• Marcel Duchamp and the urinal that changed art
• Straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• The first commercially successful electronic cigarette
• Spain welcomes Picasso’s Guernica
• New Nordic cuisine
• The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck
• Echo and the elephants
• Anthony Bourdain's 'Don't Eat Before Reading This'
• The first Great Wall of China trek
• How a Maasai community in Kenya overcame a deadly drought
• The only Pope to visit New Zealand
• The reunification of Germany
• Women's rights in independent Tunisia
• The 'Cyprus Emergency'
• Oslo's anti-racism demonstration
• The L'Amicale Four
• The nuclear mango deal
• Casablanca: Making one of Hollywood’s greatest movies
• How Rang De Basanti inspired a generation
• I starred in Pan’s Labyrinth
• My father directed Seven Samurai
• Triumph of the Will: A Nazi propaganda film
• The invention of the mobility scooter
• India’s first nuclear test
• Portugal’s worst train disaster
• Elvis visits Scotland
• Sweden’s diplomatic freeze with the USA