# Witness History

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Official site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd
Author: BBC
Episodes: 2000

## Resource

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 surprise announcement of restored relations. You’ll discover what it was like to experience disasters and how people recovered from them, including the Tabasco floods in Mexico, Portugal's worst train disaster, and the huge clean-up after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. You’ll explore culture and ideas too: Sweden’s Expedition Robinson, often credited as the first modern reality TV game show; the friendship between The Beatles’ George Harrison and Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar; and the night a tiger attack brought Las Vegas superstars Siegfried and Roy’s show to a sudden…

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## Episodes
- [Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/rosa-parks-and-the-montgomery-bus-boycott) — 2026-07-01T06:00:00+00:00
- [The final journey of Chief Long Wolf](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-final-journey-of-chief-long-wolf) — 2026-06-30T06:00:00+00:00
- [Hawaii becomes the 50th American state](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/hawaii-becomes-the-50th-american-state) — 2026-06-29T06:00:00+00:00
- [Rata de dos patas: Mexico’s famous insult song](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/rata-de-dos-patas-mexico-s-famous-insult-song) — 2026-06-26T06:00:00+00:00
- [WW1: The Battle of the Somme](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/ww1-the-battle-of-the-somme) — 2026-06-25T06:00:00+00:00
- [How Aussies taught kids to stay safe in the sun](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/how-aussies-taught-kids-to-stay-safe-in-the-sun) — 2026-06-23T08:54:00+00:00
- [Brexit: Ireland watches the vote unfold](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/brexit-ireland-watches-the-vote-unfold) — 2026-06-23T06:00:00+00:00
- [China detains Hong Kong booksellers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/china-detains-hong-kong-booksellers) — 2026-06-22T06:00:00+00:00
- [The discovery of Lyme disease](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-discovery-of-lyme-disease) — 2026-06-19T07:00:00+00:00
- [The discovery of Mungo Man](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-discovery-of-mungo-man) — 2026-06-18T06:00:00+00:00
- [Women Walk Home: Cyprus' forgotten peace march](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/women-walk-home-cyprus-forgotten-peace-march) — 2026-06-17T06:00:00+00:00
- [50 years since the Soweto Uprising](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/50-years-since-the-soweto-uprising) — 2026-06-16T06:00:00+00:00
- [The Georgian exodus from Abkhazia](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-georgian-exodus-from-abkhazia) — 2026-06-15T13:15:00+00:00
- [Hussein of Jordan: The survivor king](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/hussein-of-jordan-the-survivor-king) — 2026-06-12T06:00:00+00:00
- [The inspiration for Chekhov's Three Sisters](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-inspiration-for-chekhov-s-three-sisters) — 2026-06-11T06:00:00+00:00
- [Picasso and the Surrealist summer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/picasso-and-the-surrealist-summer) — 2026-06-10T06:00:00+00:00
- [Mstislav Rostropovich: Virtuoso cellist](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/mstislav-rostropovich-virtuoso-cellist) — 2026-06-09T06:00:00+00:00
- [Nelson Mandela's incarceration at Robben Island](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/nelson-mandela-s-incarceration-at-robben-island) — 2026-06-08T06:00:00+00:00
- [The creation of Inspector Montalbano](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-creation-of-inspector-montalbano) — 2026-06-05T06:00:00+00:00
- [The protests that sparked the Tiananmen Square massacre](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-protests-that-sparked-the-tiananmen-square-massacre) — 2026-06-04T06:00:00+00:00
- [Australia's first Big Thing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/australia-s-first-big-thing) — 2026-06-03T08:31:00+00:00
- [The first Irish language television channel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-first-irish-language-television-channel) — 2026-06-02T06:00:00+00:00
- [Recording the Eichmann interviews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/recording-the-eichmann-interviews) — 2026-06-01T06:00:00+00:00
- [Filming Titanic in Mexico](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/filming-titanic-in-mexico) — 2026-05-29T06:00:00+00:00
- [I escaped Mexico's deadly gas explosion](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/i-escaped-mexico-s-deadly-gas-explosion) — 2026-05-28T06:00:00+00:00
- [I fought for Mexico’s indigenous women to get political equality](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/i-fought-for-mexico-s-indigenous-women-to-get-political-equality) — 2026-05-27T06:00:00+00:00
- [Mexico: The election that ended one‑party rule](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/mexico-the-election-that-ended-one-party-rule) — 2026-05-26T06:00:00+00:00
- [The Mexican song that captivated lovers during World War II](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-mexican-song-that-captivated-lovers-during-world-war-ii) — 2026-05-25T06:00:00+00:00
- [Canada's worst E.coli outbreak](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/canada-s-worst-e-coli-outbreak) — 2026-05-22T06:00:00+00:00
- [Montenegro votes for independence](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/montenegro-votes-for-independence) — 2026-05-21T06:00:00+00:00
- [When Krishna Menon met Stalin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/when-krishna-menon-met-stalin) — 2026-05-20T05:00:00+00:00
- [Exposing King Albert II's secret child](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/exposing-king-albert-ii-s-secret-child) — 2026-05-19T06:00:00+00:00
- [Poland’s underground newspaper](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/poland-s-underground-newspaper) — 2026-05-18T06:00:00+00:00
- [The Sami protest song that made Eurovision history](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-sami-protest-song-that-made-eurovision-history) — 2026-05-15T06:00:00+00:00
- [When Sweden invented the reality game show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/when-sweden-invented-the-reality-game-show) — 2026-05-14T06:00:00+00:00
- [Uncovering a lost burial ground in Rio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/uncovering-a-lost-burial-ground-in-rio) — 2026-05-13T06:00:00+00:00
- [The fossil that revealed the first dinosaur feathers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-fossil-that-revealed-the-first-dinosaur-feathers) — 2026-05-12T06:00:00+00:00
- [Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/canada-s-truth-and-reconciliation-commission) — 2026-05-11T06:00:00+00:00
- [Sir David Attenborough's first Zoo Quest](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/sir-david-attenborough-s-first-zoo-quest) — 2026-05-08T06:00:00+00:00
- [Africa's worst stadium disaster](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/africa-s-worst-stadium-disaster) — 2026-05-07T06:00:00+00:00
- [Finding the world’s most complete T-rex fossil](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/finding-the-world-s-most-complete-t-rex-fossil) — 2026-05-06T06:00:00+00:00
- [Norway's WW2 railway sabotage plot](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/norway-s-ww2-railway-sabotage-plot) — 2026-05-05T06:00:00+00:00
- [Nuns killed in Algeria](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/nuns-killed-in-algeria) — 2026-05-04T06:00:00+00:00
- [The origins of World Press Freedom Day](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-origins-of-world-press-freedom-day) — 2026-05-01T06:00:00+00:00
- [Inside the Cuban thaw](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/inside-the-cuban-thaw) — 2026-04-30T06:00:00+00:00
- [Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/peter-singer-s-drowning-child-thought-experiment) — 2026-04-29T06:00:00+00:00
- [Car-free Sundays during the global oil crisis](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/car-free-sundays-during-the-global-oil-crisis) — 2026-04-28T06:00:00+00:00
- [The world's first perfume archive](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-world-s-first-perfume-archive) — 2026-04-27T06:00:00+00:00
- [The Tabasco floods](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-tabasco-floods) — 2026-04-24T06:00:00+00:00
- [The clean-up of Chernobyl](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-clean-up-of-chernobyl) — 2026-04-23T05:00:00+00:00
- [Canada's war in the woods](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/canada-s-war-in-the-woods) — 2026-04-22T06:00:00+00:00
- [Europe’s long drought of 2011](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/europe-s-long-drought-of-2011) — 2026-04-21T06:00:00+00:00
- [Mymba Kuera: The race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/mymba-kuera-the-race-to-save-wildlife-at-the-itaipu-dam) — 2026-04-20T08:34:00+00:00
- [Discovering Hans Christian Andersen's 'lost fairytale'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/discovering-hans-christian-andersen-s-lost-fairytale) — 2026-04-17T06:00:00+00:00
- [The introduction of Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-introduction-of-sharia-law-in-aceh-indonesia) — 2026-04-16T06:00:00+00:00
- [The assassination of Thomas Sankara](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-assassination-of-thomas-sankara) — 2026-04-15T06:00:00+00:00
- [Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/roddy-doyle-paddy-clarke-ha-ha-ha) — 2026-04-14T06:00:00+00:00
- [The creation of My Little Pony](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-creation-of-my-little-pony) — 2026-04-13T06:00:00+00:00
- [The turtle freed after 41 years in captivity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/the-turtle-freed-after-41-years-in-captivity) — 2026-04-10T06:00:00+00:00
- [Khula Manch, the victory rally](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/khula-manch-the-victory-rally) — 2026-04-09T06:00:00+00:00
- [Hitler's teeth](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/hitler-s-teeth) — 2026-04-08T06:00:00+00:00
- [Marcel Duchamp and the urinal that changed art](https://stenobird.com/podcast/witness-history-162365/marcel-duchamp-and-the-urinal-that-changed-art) — 2026-04-07T06:00:00+00:00

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