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 fall of the Berlin Wall
• The Leipzig demonstrations
• East German refugees in the Prague embassy
• The reburial of a Hungarian hero
• The legalisation of Solidarity
• Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist
• Britain's worst nuclear accident
• The man who fed the world
• Mexico City slashes car use
• Proving climate change: The Keeling curve
• Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
• The Bristol bus boycott
• The Notting Hill riots
• The first black woman MP in Britain
• Learie Constantine - fighting racism in the UK
• China opens up to capitalism
• The 1967 Hong Kong riots
• Mao's Cultural Revolution
• My memories of Chairman Mao
• The birth of the People's Republic of China
• The death of a matador
• The Large Hadron Collider
• Fighting the Islamic State group online
• Being black in Nazi Germany
• The Sound of Music on Broadway
• Sir Anthony Blunt - Soviet spy
• CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia
• Free breakfast with the Black Panthers
• The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'
• An Ethiopian war hero