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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• Afghan Star
• The deadly Vargas mudslides in Venezuela
• Creating Cluedo
• The creation of the modern kitchen
• Brain: PC virus
• Battle of Gallipoli
• Sazae-san: World's longest-running cartoon
• Tracey Emin’s unmade bed
• Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits
• The Hillsborough disaster
• South Africa's luxury train
• The American Freedom Train
• The longest musical composition
• Radio Free Europe
• SMS: The invention of text messaging
• Creating the board game Catan
• Tamagotchi is born
• How the hoverboard was created
• Inventing Play-Doh
• The invention of Jenga
• The first television opera
• When Laurel and Hardy spent Christmas at an English pub
• When Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japan
• India's disability law
• How NFL tickets caught fugitives
• The Paris climate agreement
• The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
• The discovery of the coelacanth
• Dismaland: Banksy's dystopian theme park
• The Balcombe Street IRA siege