The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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When the Taliban ruled Kabul
Sat 17 Jul 2021
Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine
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North Korea's 1990s famine
Sat 10 Jul 2021
How hundreds of thousands died of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea
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Supernatural sightings
Sat 3 Jul 2021
UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer.
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The Confederate flag and America鈥檚 battle over race
Sat 19 Jun 2021
One African-American woman鈥檚 act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.
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When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
Sat 12 Jun 2021
The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections
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The war on drugs
Sat 5 Jun 2021
US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971
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Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend
Sat 29 May 2021
Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike.
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When Egypt said Enough
Sat 22 May 2021
The forerunner of the Arab Spring; fighting repression in South Korea; saving wetlands
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Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
Sat 15 May 2021
A history of psychedelic experiments, contraception in Ireland, an Iraqi escape story
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The IRA hunger strikes
Sat 8 May 2021
Hunger strikes in Northern Ireland, wine fraud, and feminist science fiction
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The killing of Osama Bin Laden
Sat 1 May 2021
The life and death of the al-Qaeda leader, the man behind the 9/11 attacks
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How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
Sat 24 Apr 2021
A history of the gun lobby in the US, the Eichmann trial in 1961, the first space shuttle
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The first woman in the US Supreme Court
Sat 17 Apr 2021
Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to America's top court, plus the Bay of Pigs invasion
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The women who reclaimed the night
Sat 10 Apr 2021
Women's night-time protest, a Mexican female serial killer and the jet stream.
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Black Jesus
Sat 3 Apr 2021
The pastor who argued God was black; Mrs Thatcher wows Moscow; orchid-hunters kidnapped
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The History Hour
Sat 27 Mar 2021
South Africa fights for cheaper drugs, slavery in Mauritania and a sex therapy legend.
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The History Hour
Sat 20 Mar 2021
A Jamaican drug lord, New York鈥檚 drag scene and cold war chess in the Soviet Union.
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The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
Sat 13 Mar 2021
Egypt's Arab Spring, abortions in 1960s America, the champion of the Parthenon Marbles
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The Iron Curtain
Sat 6 Mar 2021
Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, South Africa's Sharpeville massacre and a deep dive.
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The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Sat 27 Feb 2021
The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines
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Black History: The Black Panthers
Sat 20 Feb 2021
How radical was the US black rights group? Plus, Mary Wilson of the Supremes
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US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Hundreds of civilians killed in a Gulf War airstrike; the newspaper to help the homeless
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The Burma protests of 1988
Sat 6 Feb 2021
The fight for democracy in Burma, US troops on drugs in Vietnam, the Moscow state circus
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The Arab Spring of 2011
Sat 30 Jan 2021
Eyewitness accounts of the sweeping social unrest against repressive regimes
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Hitler's beer hall putsch
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Hitler's first attempt at seizing power, anti-Sikh riots in India, and the Turner Diaries
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Attack at the US Capitol
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Puerto Rican militants attack Congress, India's first woman lawyer, landing on Titan
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Buddhist on Death Row
Sat 9 Jan 2021
How US prisoners turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike"
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75 years of Unesco
Sat 2 Jan 2021
Why Unesco was set up 75 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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The birth of Bangladesh
Sat 19 Dec 2020
How Bangladesh鈥檚 struggle for independence began with a landmark election in Pakistan.
