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The History Hour Episodes

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    Anwar Ibrahim and road safety inventions

    Malaysia's Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, on being put on trial among other stories

  2. Arabian Peninsula

    Stories from the Arabian Peninsula to mark the start of the World Cup in Qatar

  3. Racist raids, protests and a political assassination

    Racism led to raids in the 1970s, protests in the 1980s, and a political assassination

  4. The best Championship Manager player ever

    The best Championship Manager player ever and sex-selective abortion in India

  5. Women taking a stand

    A focus on global events where women have taken a stand for equality from Sudan to Iran

  6. Cuban boxing and the brink of nuclear war

    Cuban boxing, the brink of nuclear war and baseball as diplomacy

  7. Global strikes and industrial action

    When workers around the world took industrial action in pursuit of better conditions

  8. Caribbean carnivals and a racially inclusive nightclub

    Racially inclusive clubbing arrives in Manchester and the release of Gilad Shalit

  9. Dassler brothers' rift

    The Dassler brothers' rift, castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos and Jomo Kenyatta's rule

  10. Queen Elizabeth II and broadcasting

    A look at some of Queen Elizabeth II's most significant broadcasts

  11. Queen Elizabeth II

    Stories from the reign of Queen Elizabeth II including memories of her coronation

  12. Brazil

    Stories from Brazil, including the murder of Tim Lopes and the creation of Brasilia

  13. Gorbachev's legacy

    Perestroika in the Soviet Union and the release of the dissident poet Ratushinskaya

  14. Inflation and the cost of living

    Inflation and the cost of living, the Darayya massacre, and the first Gay Games

  15. Seventy-five years since India's Partition

    A compilation of stories marking 75 years since India's Partition

  16. The nightclub that changed Ibiza

    Ibiza's clubbing scene, Indonesian forest fires and the resignation of Richard Nixon

  17. Fifty years since Asians were kicked out of Uganda

    A compilation of stories marking 50 years since Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda

  18. The Revolution on Granite

    A student protest in Ukraine, the Surkov leaks and the invention of the nicotine patch

  19. Stories from iconic TV shows from around the world

    The history of television from around the world and its enduring impact

  20. Stories from the abortion fight frontline

    Experiences from both sides of the abortion debate plus the story of the Pill

  21. America鈥檚 first gay election candidate

    Jose Sarria's political journey, Smear Tests, Discovery of Higgs Boson

  22. Hong Kong: 25 years since the handover from British to Chinese rule

    The last governor of Hong Kong, a pro democracy campaigner and life in Kowloon Walled City

  23. Egypt's first democratic Presidential election

    Egypt's first democratic election, the murder of Vincent Chin, the UK's first Pride march

  24. Cambodian genocide trials

    Cambodian Genocide trials, 'Napalm Girl' from the Vietnam War, and the Holy Cross dispute

  25. How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing

    Suicide bombing attack on Sri Lanka's president, Anne Frank's diary and Gabon's forests

  26. The Syrian civil war

    Chemical weapons attack in Syria, lynching outlawed in America and the Queen's coronation

  27. Artists who made history

    Memories of Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, banned Russian art

  28. The Marcos regime in the Philippines

    The rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior; Shanghai during World War Two; McDonald's in Russia

  29. The war in Transnistria

    Moldova battles Russian-backed separatists; Egypt bread riots; Eyjafjallaj枚kull erupts

  30. Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

    Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling

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