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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• Magellan and the first voyage around the world
• Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
• India's affirmative action controversy
• The TV series Friends
• The coup, the president and the embassy
• The businessman who defied the Italian Mafia
• The Holocaust denial trial
• Inside lunar astronaut quarantine
• The first all-women peacekeeping unit
• The outbreak of World War Two
• The paedophile identified by his hands
• Nina Simone moves to Liberia
• The Kindertransport children who fled the Nazis
• Mexico's murdered women
• The murder of black teenager Emmett Till
• The death of Brazil's Getulio Vargas
• The return of the wolf
• I helped liberate Paris from the Nazis
• Finding El Salvador's missing children
• The first human Cyborg
• Dr Seuss: the man who taught America to read
• Catching 'Carlos the Jackal'
• The warnings before 9/11
• The daily disposable contact lens
• The division of Kashmir
• The Yangtze Incident
• British troops take to the streets of Northern Ireland
• Criminals in the community
• Under the North Pole
• The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'