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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• Strictly Come Dancing
• The war on drugs
• The Bauhaus
• The siege of Dien Bien Phu
• Jack Ma: The founder of Alibaba
• The Malayan Emergency
• The sinking of the Belgrano
• The Arctic African
• Rupert Brooke
• Ellen comes out
• The al-Yamamah arms deals
• Sri Lanka: A journalist's editorial from the grave
• South Africa's first free elections
• Britain's first vegans
• Nato bombs Serbian TV
• The Columbine massacre
• How organic farming started
• Auto-destructive art
• The first play on Broadway written by a black woman
• Dennis Tito - the first space tourist
• Chinese restaurant syndrome
• The rise of Hindu nationalism
• The man who invented wingsuits
• The Amritsar Massacre of 1919
• The man who made Marilyn Monroe dance
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Abolishing the army
• The warship lost for more than 300 years
• EMDR: the eye-movement therapy
• Patty Hearst the rebel heiress