Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
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1315 Episodes
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Birth of a new language
Published: 8/2/2023 -
First dinosaur eggs identified in India
Published: 8/1/2023 -
José Mujica: Prison break to president
Published: 7/31/2023 -
Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway
Published: 7/28/2023 -
The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie
Published: 7/27/2023 -
The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit
Published: 7/26/2023 -
Brain: The first personal computer virus
Published: 7/25/2023 -
Escaping the Nazis in Greece
Published: 7/24/2023 -
The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis
Published: 7/21/2023 -
The birth of Barbie
Published: 7/20/2023 -
Japan surrenders in China
Published: 7/19/2023 -
The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia
Published: 7/18/2023 -
Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’
Published: 7/17/2023 -
Creating the first emoji
Published: 7/14/2023 -
When disposable nappies were invented
Published: 7/13/2023 -
Inventing Rubik’s Cube
Published: 7/11/2023 -
Invention of the ballpoint pen
Published: 7/10/2023 -
A right royal night out
Published: 7/7/2023 -
When tourism came to the Maldives
Published: 7/6/2023 -
The National Health Service begins
Published: 7/5/2023
History as told by the people who were there.