The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Love and Marriage
From speed-dating to gay romance, from divorce to chastity, recent changes in love.
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Sanctuary Cities in the USA
US safe havens for undocumented immigrants, a killer killer whale, DNA, and a Kenyan hit.
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The End of Apartheid
Former South African police minister talks apartheid, Black Hawk Down and a polar record
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Indigenous rights in Australia, the invention of the microwave, and Desert Island Discs.
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Roots - The TV Series
Slavery on US TV, peace in El Salvador, Hrant Dink's murder; and Dungeons and Dragons.
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Princess Diana's Minefield Walk
A royal visit boosts landmine campaigners, Turkey's headscarf pioneer and spying in WW1
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American Communists
American Communists, gun-toting children in Albania and death and forgiveness in Ecuador.
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The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
Key players in the fall of the USSR recall the momentous events of December 1991
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Death of an Anarchist
The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett and flying to the moon
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Yoyes, ETA's female icon
The death of a Basque fighter, resisting the Nazis in Lithuania, and a Hindu milk miracle
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100 Women History Hour
A special edition of the programme remembering women that history has overlooked.
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Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt
The shooting of Bob Marley, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, Colombia's Lost City
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The 1948 French Miners' Strike
How coal miners in post-war France went from being seen as heroes, to pariahs.
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The Dili Massacre
Horror in East Timor, book-burning in Britain and the birth of the James Bond theme tune.
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The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial
Alleged sex abuse on a remote island, a controversial Kurdish song, men versus computers
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Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter
The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.
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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.
