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The History Hour Episodes

  1. Medicare

    America's government health insurance programme, plus Chinua Achebe and Bruce Lee.

  2. The Nestle Boycott

    1970s consumer pressure on big business, plus child refugees from 80 years ago.

  3. Denmark's 2nd EU Referendum

    A re-run vote in Denmark, conflict in Slovenia, Cuba's army elite on trial & Ron Kovic.

  4. The Battle of the Somme

    Veterans recall horrific WW1 battle, forced sterilisation in Peru, London's Great Plague

  5. Space Crash

    A crash on the Mir space station, an African-American in the USSR, and the Bobbit case.

  6. The Launch of the Moral Majority

    The launch of the 'Moral Majority' in the USA, Mount Pinatubo and TV in Bhutan.

  7. The Attack on the Osirak Nuclear Reactor

    Israel's attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, plus Ritalin, da Vinci and US Civil Rights.

  8. Tanzania's Ujamaa

    Socialism in Tanzania, assassination in the Caribbean, the Concordski crash and Date Rape

  9. The Thalidomide Trial

    German drugs company goes on trial; Hands Across America; the execution of Anne Boleyn.

  10. The Siege of Dien Bien Phu

    French forces surrender in Vietnam; the filming of Citizen Kane; the 1968 Paris riots.

  11. The Imaginary War Heroes

    During World War Two, Soviet propaganda promoted a heroic feat that never happened.

  12. U2 Spy Plane

    A secret spy plane shot down over the USSR, Salem Witches, Hitler's A-bomb & Hemingway.

  13. Remembering Chernobyl

    Remembering Chernobyl, Charles Darwin and the McCarthy era, plus 60s icon, the Mini

  14. Shakespeare's Jubilee

    Celebrating the bard 18th-century style; Haile Selassie in Jamaica; and flying Harriers.

  15. The Amritsar Massacre of 1919

    In April 1919, the British Indian Army fired on an unarmed crowd - killing hundreds.

  16. Romania's Orphan Scandal

    Life as a Romanian orphan in the 1980s plus the 1977 Ogaden War and Mallory on Everest

  17. The Death of Virginia Woolf

    It is 75 years since the great English author took her own life.

  18. Iraqi Shia Uprising - 1991

    At the end of the First Gulf War thousands of Iraqi Shias rose up against Saddam Hussein.

  19. China-Vietnam Border War 1979

    Former communist allies China and Vietnam fought a short but bloody war in 1979.

  20. The Original Revolutionary Feminist

    Feminism in the 20th century, poisoning in the Balkans, and a miscarriage of justice

  21. 05/03/2016

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  22. The Caracazo Protests

    Deadly protests in Venezuela in 1989; exodus to Liberia; the Foxcatcher murder.

  23. The Battle of Verdun

    The battle that traumatised France, forbidden Tibet in the 1940s and fashion's New Look

  24. Pakistan's Women Only Police Station

    How Karachi got an all female police station plus Black Sabbath & WW2 women code breakers

  25. Prozac

    The birth of the Prozac generation, saving ancient Afghan artworks, plus a Disney classic

  26. The Challenger Disaster

    The launch of space shuttle Challenger goes horribly wrong, Sharia in Nigeria, and Batman.

  27. Japanese Soldier in Hiding

    A Japanese soldier hid in the jungle of Guam for 27 years after WW2.

  28. The First Alzheimer's Patient

    The discovery of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, Nigeria鈥檚 first coup and forbidden art in Russia

  29. Castro Takes Havana

    Cuban revolutionaries victorious, US nuclear accident in 60s Spain, Mao's Little Red Book

  30. The Donner Party

    A gruesome tale of the American West, Vietnamese refugees and a murder in Tsarist Russia.

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