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Adrift for 76 Days

Surviving the Atlantic alone in a liferaft, Spain's historic 1960s tourism boom, the death of...

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The Million Man March

On 16th October 1995 hundreds of thousands of black American men marched on Washington D.C. in an...

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South Korea's 1980s prison camps

The horrors of South Korea's so-called Social Purification project, the vanished Chinese sailors...

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Quarantined in a TB sanatorium

Extreme lockdown half a century ago: the TB children forced to endure years of isolation in a...

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Dealing with economic crisis

As the world begins to consider how to emerge from the Coronavirus pandemic, we look back at...

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Sex trafficking and peacekeepers

How whistle-blowers implicated UN peacekeepers and international police in the forced...

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Black American History Special

Eyewitness accounts of important moments in recent African American history. We hear from the...

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The Zanzibar revolution

How a bloody 1960s revolution changed East Africa. We hear an eyewitness account and talk to...

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The Gwangju massacre

Forty years on from the Gwangju uprising in South Korea, the book that changed the way we eat,...

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Britain's World War Two crime wave

During times of crisis in the UK, World War Two is often remembered as a period when the country...

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Fighting for the pill in Japan

Why Japanese women had to wait until 1999 to be allowed to take the pill, the Dutch 'Prince of...

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VE Day Special

Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War in Europe....

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The 1957 flu pandemic

A new strain of flu emerged in East Asia in 1957 and spread all over the world. Known at the time...

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The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

The grandson of the last surviving African-born US slave, plus the story behind the portable...

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Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world

50 years since the Apollo 13 mission, how millions of TV viewers followed the famous rescue of...

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How technology revolutionised our lives

In a special edition of the History Hour, Max Pearson looks back at some of the major...

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Women in the Law

Trailblazing British lawyer Rose Heilbron was the first female judge at London's famous Old...

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The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss

How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate friends who had died of AIDS with a quilt, plus...

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The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

In 1990, NASA launched the historic mission which put into orbit the Hubble Space Telescope. The...

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The 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic

A special edition looking at how the world has battled deadly viruses over the past 100 years, We...

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