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Witness History

History

Witness History

BBC World Service

Rata de dos patas: Mexico’s famous insult song

June 26, 2026 1:00am 10 min

For more than 25 years, Rata de dos patas has been one of Mexico’s most recognisable - and unusual - songs. A relentless string of insults, it was made famous by the singer Paquita la del Barrio. Composer Manuel Eduardo ...

WW1: The Battle of the Somme

June 25, 2026 1:00am 10 min

In July 1916, Britain led an Allied offensive against German positions on the Western Front near the Somme river in France. The British army suffered 60,000 casualties on the first day. By the end of the battle in Novemb...

Sid the Seagull and the Slip Slop Slap campaign

June 23, 2026 3:54am 10 min

In 1981, Australia launched a fight against skin cancer with help from a yellow cartoon seagull and a catchy jingle. The Slip Slop Slap campaign was created by an advertising team of Philip Adams, Peter Best and Alex Sti...

Brexit: Ireland watches the vote unfold

June 23, 2026 1:00am 10 min

In June 2016, voters in the UK were asked whether they wanted to remain in the European Union or leave. It was a decision that would divide the country and reshape relations with its closest neighbours.As the result emer...

China detains Hong Kong booksellers

June 22, 2026 1:00am 10 min

It's 10 years since a Hong Kong bookseller who was detained for selling material critical of China’s leaders, was released and went public.In 2015, Lam Wing-Kee and four other men who published and sold books went missin...

The discovery of Lyme disease

June 19, 2026 2:00am 10 min

In 1975, a mysterious outbreak of illness struck children in the United States, triggering a medical breakthrough. Prof Allen Steere uncovered a bacterial infection which was spread by blood‑sucking ticks. It was form...

The discovery of Mungo Man

June 18, 2026 1:00am 10 min

On 26 February 1974, geologist Dr Jim Bowler discovered a 42,000-year-old skeleton in New South Wales, Australia.The remains were nicknamed Mungo Man, as they were found in Lake Mungo.The discovery rewrote Australia's hi...

Women Walk Home: Cyprus' forgotten peace march

June 17, 2026 1:00am 10 min

In June 1987, hundreds of women walked towards a ceasefire line that had divided Cyprus since 1974. The island was split after a coup backed by Greece and a subsequent Turkish military intervention, which left thousands ...

50 years since the Soweto Uprising

June 16, 2026 1:00am 10 min

Half a century ago, an event took place that shook the apartheid regime in South Africa to its foundations - the Soweto Uprising.It began with a demonstration by schoolchildren against being taught in Afrikaans.The gover...

The Georgian exodus from Abkhazia

June 15, 2026 8:15am 10 min

In 1993, separatist forces took Sukhumi, the capital of the former Soviet territory of Abkhazia. As Georgian authorities lost control of the region, more than 200,000 people were forced to flee. Many had no choice but to...

Hussein of Jordan: The survivor king

June 12, 2026 1:00am 10 min

In 1970, King Hussein of Jordan survived after gunmen opened fire on his motorcade close to his summer palace. The king remained unharmed, but his driver was wounded. It wasn’t the king’s first near-miss. Before being cr...

The inspiration for Chekhov's Three Sisters

June 11, 2026 1:00am 10 min

In 1897, Paul Shishkoff was 10 years old and living with his family in rural Russia.It was there he met the great Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov, who was resting after the end of Moscow's theatre season. During the l...

Picasso and the Surrealist summer

June 10, 2026 1:00am 10 min

In the summer of 1937, some of the 20th Century's most famous artists, writers and photographers were holidaying in the south of France. They included artist Pablo Picasso, photographer Lee Miller, poet Paul Éluard and t...

Mstislav Rostropovich: Virtuoso cellist

June 09, 2026 1:00am 10 min

In 1978, Mstislav Rostropovich, one of the greatest cellists in history, was stripped of his Soviet citizenship for engaging in 'unpatriotic activity'. Rostropovich’s fallout with the Soviet leadership was precipitated b...

Nelson Mandela's incarceration at Robben Island

June 08, 2026 1:00am 10 min

On 13 June 1964, Nelson Mandela, who later became South Africa's president, was taken to the maximum security prison on Robben Island off the coast of South Africa.Mandela had led the military wing of the African Nationa...

The creation of Inspector Montalbano

June 05, 2026 1:00am 10 min

On 10 March 1994, Italian author Andrea Camilleri's The Shape of Water was published.It features Inspector Montalbano in the fictional Sicilian town of Vigàta.The novel is widely credited with helping start a new wave of...

The protests that sparked the Tiananmen Square massacre

June 04, 2026 1:00am 9 min

One month before the bloodshed in Beijing, a 10km line of protestors snaked through the city. For over a decade China had been opening up to global trade and there was promise that, with greater economic freedoms, democr...

Australia's first Big Thing

June 03, 2026 3:31am 10 min

In 1963, a giant Scotsman sculpture appeared outside the Scotty Motel in Adelaide, in South Australia. A banana, a koala, and even a potato soon followed, paving the way for the country’s beloved Big Things - one of Aust...

The first Irish language television channel

June 02, 2026 1:00am 9 min

In 1996, Ireland launched its first television channel broadcasting exclusively in the Irish language. Teilifís na Gaeilge, later renamed TG4, went on air on Halloween night. It aimed to appeal to both native and non-nat...

Recording the Eichmann interviews

June 01, 2026 1:00am 10 min

In the 1950s, Dutch journalist Willem Sassen recorded hours of interview with the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann about his involvement in the Holocaust, before his capture in Argentina by Israeli agents.Willem's daught...

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