Witness History

Autor: BBC World Service

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 hear it through the voice of someone who was there. Scientists, artists, campaigners, soldiers, leaders and everyday people tell their true stories. When you subscribe to Witness History, you’ll be taken inside turning points in world affairs, from West Africa’s fight back against Boko Haram in 2015, to the behind-closed-doors talks that led to the US-Cuba “thaw” and the surp...

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1. The Hungarian Revolution – Witness History
2. Keith Haring’s Berlin Wall mural – Witness History
3. Malta’s divorce referendum – Witness History
4. How Ten Canoes made cinema history – Witness History
5. Gerald Durrell's mission to save species from extinction – Witness History
6. Manchester City’s inflatable banana craze – Witness History
7. Declaring chimpanzees an endangered species – Witness History
8. When Dian Fossey was murdered – Witness History
9. Washoe: The chimp who learnt to sign – Witness History
10. Harry Harlow's monkey attachment studies – Witness History
11. The first monkeys to survive space travel – Witness History
12. The most successful Paralympian in history – Witness History
13. The boy behind the creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh books – Witness History
14. How rats were trained to clear landmines – Witness History
15. The mirrors that lit up a dark Norwegian town – Witness History
16. Egypt’s President Sadat is assassinated – Witness History
17. The Peruvian pilots who secretly delivered fighter jets during the Falklands War – Witness History
18. The first Rubik's Cube world champion – Witness History
19. Boer War: the siege of Ladysmith – Witness History
20. The Dead Sea Scrolls – Witness History
21. The contraceptive pill gets legalised in Japan – Witness History
22. Sulawesi's cave art and the origins of storytelling – Witness History
23. The birth of Jodrell Bank – Witness History
24. Harold Riley: Painting Nelson Mandela – Witness History
25. Kinder Scout mass trespass – Witness History
26. The gathering that helped shape decolonisation – Witness History
27. ‘Baby’ computer is invented – Witness History
28. The nightclub that changed Manchester – Witness History
29. The discovery of the San José shipwreck – Witness History
30. The birth of India's call centre industry – Witness History