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 yoga teacher and the violinist
• Sister Lotus - early Chinese online star
• The assassinaton of Medgar Evers
• Carl Gustav Jung
• The death of Neda Soltan
• The first gay marriage in the USA
• How America 'lost' China
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Reichstag
• The first anti-psychotic drug
• The end of the war in Kosovo
• The Gurkha soldiers fight for equality
• Broadcasting D-Day
• The Little Prince
• D-Day
• Vikings in York
• Six Degrees - the first online social network
• Behind the scenes on Sesame Street
• Tiananmen Square escape
• Bokassa's massacre of the children
• The death of Jawaharlal Nehru
• The Acid Survivors Foundation
• How environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed
• Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
• The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
• Walking the Great Wall of China
• Hitler's stolen children
• China's One Child policy
• The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
• Predicting the financial crash
• The Karakoram highway