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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• Syria's secret library
• Charles Taylor and the blood diamond trial
• The Japanese invasion of Malaya
• The Aga Khan meets Florence Nightingale
• The storming of Spain's parliament
• The playboy spy who inspired James Bond
• 'I taught the Dalai Lama'
• The photo which symbolised Argentina’s resistance
• Toxic shock syndrome and tampon safety
• World War Two’s Shetland Bus
• The flooding of Florence
• The Mont Blanc Tunnel
• Gina Lollobrigida interviews Fidel Castro
• When Pink Floyd played in Venice
• The discovery of nerve growth factor
• My dad created Mr Men and Little Miss
• Austria's wine scandal
• Jimmy Carter visits Cuba
• Cuba's Mariel boatlift
• The 'Jugroom Fort' rescue mission
• Ötzi: The Iceman of Bolzano
• The Kaohsiung Incident
• Chile's 'Penguin Revolution'
• The liberation of Auschwitz
• John Logie Baird invents television
• Agatha Christie: best-selling novelist of all time
• The Challenger space shuttle tragedy
• Operation Mincemeat
• The Irish priest who built an airport
• Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran