Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
The first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion
- 9 mins
- 19 Apr 2024
BBC Sounds - Witness History - Available Episodes
Witness History
History as told by the people who were there.
Episodes (3605 Available)
Deadly Everest avalancheIn 2014, an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 sherpas on Mount Everest
- 9 mins
- 18 Apr 2024
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemicIn 2014, Sierra Leone was devastated by Africa's biggest Ebola outbreak on record
- 9 mins
- 17 Apr 2024
The friendship train: Connecting India and BangladeshIn 2008, India and Bangladesh were reconnected by train after 43 years
- 9 mins
- 16 Apr 2024
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’In May 2001, 52 men were arrested in a gay nightclub floating on the River Nile
- 9 mins
- 15 Apr 2024
Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrenderHiroo Onoda spent 30 years fighting in the jungle, believing the war was still going on
- 9 mins
- 12 Apr 2024
St Teresa of Avila's severed handHow General Franco kept the hand of St Teresa of Avila for spiritual guidance
- 9 mins
- 11 Apr 2024
The Scream: A stolen masterpieceIn 1994, an undercover operation was launched to recover the Scream painting
- 9 mins
- 10 Apr 2024
How Lake Karla in Greece was drainedIn 1962, Thessaly’s Lake Karla was drained by the Greek government
- 9 mins
- 09 Apr 2024
The 2010 Kampala bombingsBombings in Uganda in 2010 killed 74. Many were football fans watching the World Cup
- 9 mins
- 08 Apr 2024
Bonus: The Black 14The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
- 32 mins
- 06 Apr 2024
Sweden's Cinnamon Bun DayIn 1999, a delicious new tradition was born in Sweden's kitchens
- 9 mins
- 05 Apr 2024
The Bluetooth storyBluetooth was invented in the 1990s in Lund, Sweden
- 9 mins
- 04 Apr 2024
Sweden's pioneering paternity leaveFifty years ago Sweden introduced gender neutral parental leave
- 9 mins
- 03 Apr 2024
The man who invented the seat beltIn 1958, Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin invented the three-point safety belt for cars
- 9 mins
- 02 Apr 2024
Fifty years of AbbaIn 1974, Swedish act Abba won the Eurovision song contest
- 9 mins
- 01 Apr 2024
Surviving the Rwandan genocideApril 1994 was the start of the Rwandan genocide. One hundred days of atrocities followed
- 9 mins
- 29 Mar 2024
The founding of NatoThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to block the Soviet Union's expansion
- 9 mins
- 28 Mar 2024
Britain's first beach for nudistsIn 1980, a seaside town opened a beach where people could strip off as they pleased
- 9 mins
- 27 Mar 2024
The Heimlich ManoeuvreHow the life-saving method to stop choking was developed
- 9 mins
- 26 Mar 2024
