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 Cuban writer who defied Fidel Castro
• Jaslyk – Uzbekistan’s infamous prison
• The British sculptor who won over the world
• Shackleton
• The killing of Pablo Escobar
• The first confirmed case of HIV in America
• Handing back Uluru
• From cakes to computers
• India's economic revolution
• The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking
• Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter
• The man who got Delhi on track
• I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
• The 'Woman in Gold'
• The first Tasers
• The first Indian to win Miss World
• The Love Canal disaster
• The demolition of the Babri Masjid
• Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail
• Memories of Wilfred Owen
• The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall
• The Bhagalpur blindings
• Britain's secret propaganda war
• A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer
• Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation
• Saving the Great Barrier Reef
• 'Jane' - the underground abortion service
• The Algerians who fought with France
• The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
• Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech