The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Shell Shock
The psychiatric cost of WW1; Hungary's 1956 uprising, Marvel Comics and London's Big Bang
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Bugging the US Embassy in Moscow
Spying on America's embassy in the USSR, the Mau Mau rebellion and the Aberfan disaster.
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Chile Votes Against Pinochet
In Oct 1988 Chileans voted to end the rule of General Augusto Pinochet in a referendum.
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Exposing Child Abuse in the Catholic Church
The investigative journalist who lifted the lid on Irish child sex abuse.
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The Mayak Nuclear Disaster
A nuclear disaster, America's worst prison riot, World War Two internment and apartheid
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The First Legal 'Physician-Assisted Suicide'
In 1996 an Australian doctor legally helped a terminally ill man to die.
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The Invention of the Tank
The first tanks during WW1; Peru's Shining Path movement; America's 2001 anthrax attacks.
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How Europe Won Over the British Left
British unions turning to Europe, Italian partisans fighting fascists, Mao as a man.
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The Mexican American War
We hear about the lowest point in US-Mexican relations, plus the last case of Smallpox.
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Stockholm Syndrome
We hear from one of the hostages in the first documented case of Stockholm Syndrome.
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Conflict over a Tree in the DMZ
Death in Korea's no-man's land, the birth of the national parks and Studio Ghibli.
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The Nairobi Embassy Bombing
A Kenyan hero who survived al Qaeda attack, Man on Wire, the Krays and digging up Masada
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The University of Texas Shooting
The first campus killings in the US; an arts festival in Lebanon; meeting JD Salinger
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First CIA coup in Latin America
America's fight against communism; giant China earthquake; riots in Liverpool; Picasso.
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Medicare
America's government health insurance programme, plus Chinua Achebe and Bruce Lee.
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The Nestle Boycott
1970s consumer pressure on big business, plus child refugees from 80 years ago.
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Denmark's 2nd EU Referendum
A re-run vote in Denmark, conflict in Slovenia, Cuba's army elite on trial & Ron Kovic.
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The Battle of the Somme
Veterans recall horrific WW1 battle, forced sterilisation in Peru, London's Great Plague
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Space Crash
A crash on the Mir space station, an African-American in the USSR, and the Bobbit case.
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The Launch of the Moral Majority
The launch of the 'Moral Majority' in the USA, Mount Pinatubo and TV in Bhutan.
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The Attack on the Osirak Nuclear Reactor
Israel's attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, plus Ritalin, da Vinci and US Civil Rights.
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Tanzania's Ujamaa
Socialism in Tanzania, assassination in the Caribbean, the Concordski crash and Date Rape
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The Thalidomide Trial
German drugs company goes on trial; Hands Across America; the execution of Anne Boleyn.
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The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
French forces surrender in Vietnam; the filming of Citizen Kane; the 1968 Paris riots.
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The Imaginary War Heroes
During World War Two, Soviet propaganda promoted a heroic feat that never happened.
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U2 Spy Plane
A secret spy plane shot down over the USSR, Salem Witches, Hitler's A-bomb & Hemingway.
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Remembering Chernobyl
Remembering Chernobyl, Charles Darwin and the McCarthy era, plus 60s icon, the Mini
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Shakespeare's Jubilee
Celebrating the bard 18th-century style; Haile Selassie in Jamaica; and flying Harriers.
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The Amritsar Massacre of 1919
In April 1919, the British Indian Army fired on an unarmed crowd - killing hundreds.
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Romania's Orphan Scandal
Life as a Romanian orphan in the 1980s plus the 1977 Ogaden War and Mallory on Everest