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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• How Lagos Fashion Week began
• Wole Soyinka: Imprisoned during Nigeria’s Biafra war
• Escaping Nigeria's Biafra war
• Building the New Afrika Shrine in Nigeria
• West Africa fights back against Boko Haram
• Ravi and George
• India goes to the UN
• The Howard Hughes literary hoax
• Colombia's Salt Cathedral
• Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film
• How the Bosnian war ended
• The Spanish king reclaims his throne
• The death of Franco
• Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015
• Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit
• When Maldives' ministers met underwater
• Bataclan attack in Paris
• Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
• Birth of the G7
• Breaking the sound barrier
• Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
• The ‘father of e-books’
• The creation of Miffy
• President Clinton is impeached
• The brains behind Thunderbirds
• Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
• Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
• Srebrenica massacre
• The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
• Death of a priest