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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• Mindfulness for the masses
• The secret Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim
• Around the world in 20 days
• Drama in the British parliament
• The first home pregnancy test
• The rise of Viktor Orban
• Autism and the MMR vaccine
• The discovery of the Aztec Moon Goddess
• The first democratic elections in the USSR
• The millionaire Nazi war criminal
• How Little America was built in Afghanistan
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• China's breakthrough malaria cure
• Lenin and the deadly mushrooms
• The fall of Singapore
• Britain's first female black headteacher
• The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles
• Speaking out against my abuser: Daniel Ortega
• The creation of the Barbie doll
• Britain's first Muslim woman in government
• Happy Beer Day!
• Asama Sanso: Japanese hostage crisis
• Sucked out of a plane
• Swine flu shuts down Mexico City
• Venezuela's oil bonanza
• How science ended the search for Josef Mengele
• The men who tried to warn us about smoking
• The curse of Agent Orange
• The Columbia space shuttle disaster
• The true story of Roma