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The History Hour Episodes

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    The End of World War One

    Eyewitness accounts of the devastating war that changed the world.

  2. Life With America's Black Panthers

    Remembering the radical African American movement, and the KGB's whistleblower.

  3. When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed

    Mikhail Khodorkovsky on his arrest in Russia, Nigerian oil and Desmond Tutu.

  4. When Belgium Banned Coca Cola

    A strange illness strikes Belgian teenagers, Brazil's Amazon war, and the 1973 oil crisis

  5. The Nazi Black Book

    The Nazi arrest list for Britain, wartime Austria, and anti-traveller riots in Sweden

  6. The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil

    The fighting in Sao Paulo in 1968 that drove Brazil deeper into military dictatorship.

  7. The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine

    The creation of the cervical cancer vaccine, and the bridge between Denmark and Sweden.

  8. The Arnhem Parachute Drop

    Operation Market Garden, Brazil's nuclear accident, the Battle of Algiers and Cuban spies

  9. How I Survived a Fire on a Plane

    A lucky escape from a jet plane fire in the 1970s and the killing of Steve Biko.

  10. Living under Gaddafi

    How Gaddafi changed Libya, the battle for Brick Lane in 70s London, the first MRI scanner

  11. Surviving the "Death Railway"

    A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2; Hitler's girl guides and the Lake Nyos disaster

  12. Albert Speer - Hitler's Architect

    Interviewing a senior Nazi; the Soviet fight against alcohol; German hostage drama.

  13. Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner

    WW2 anti-bombing protestor, 20 years since Omagh and the birth of the instant noodle.

  14. When Buckingham Palace Opened Its Doors

    Buckingham Palace lets in the public, fake news from East Germany, uprising in Burma.

  15. WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors

    First World War conscientious objectors, Iran bends the nuclear rules, and dancing bears

  16. The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History

    How the true history of the Great Zimbabwe ruins was uncovered after independence.

  17. The Killing of the Russian Tsar

    The murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, four daughters and young son in 1918.

  18. Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test

    India on the nuclear world stage, the Spiegel Affair and the refugee "Phantom Shipwreck."

  19. When The US Shot Down An Iranian Airliner

    The tragic story of Flight 655, a Russian art controversy, plus Madeleine Albright

  20. The Ex-President and the Gun Lobby

    The power of the NRA; murdered Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin; Swedish submarine drama

  21. Wittenoom: An Australian Tragedy

    Asbestos-related deaths in Australia and when doctors first described child abuse.

  22. Korea Divided: A Bitter History

    Key witnesses to the turbulent history of North and South Korea.

  23. The 1968 Belgrade Student Revolt

    The 1968 student protest in Communist Yugoslavia and the running craze 'from couch to 5k'

  24. Free Health Care for All

    The birth of Britain's NHS; the Thalidomide trial; and discovering a baby woolly mammoth

  25. The Fall of Suharto in Indonesia

    How riots toppled a dictator; honouring Holocaust survivors in film; 麻豆官网首页入口 lesbian protest.

  26. May 1968 Paris Riots

    A riot policeman's view of the violence that swept through France in May 1968

  27. The Last King of Bulgaria

    From child king to prime minister, the story of Bulgaria's King Simeon II.

  28. When Margaret Thatcher Came to Power

    Britain's first female PM, prisoners on the high seas, and the story of Takeshi's Castle

  29. The Oslo Peace Talks

    Secret attempt at Mid-East peace, remembering Pablo Picasso, the death of the Red Baron.

  30. Earth Day

    The birth of the modern environmental movement.

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