The History Hour Episodes Available now
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The world's first woman premier
Sri Lanka's woman PM plus the first Arab leader to visit Israel and the women's sex book.
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The Guerrilla Girls
Fighting sexism and racism in the 1980s art world, plus Pluto is downgraded
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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The murder of the Israeli leader; Germany's "Occupation Babies"; nude theatre in London
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US presidential history special
Inside JFK's election victory, plus Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, and the religious right
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Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Why Portugal took a radical approach to drugs in 2001, plus theatre's Joan Littlewood
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CNN and the 24-hour news revolution
The launch of CNN, the end of Lebanon's civil war and making a film in Saddam's Iraq.
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British black history special
The voyage of the Empire Windrush, the battle of Lewisham and the creation of Desmond's
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The Mafia and Italian politics
The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia plus the birth of Google.
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Blackwater killed my son
How US private security guards killed 14 Iraqi civilians; plus Florida's election chaos
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Stories of resistance and protest from around the world
Different protest stories from China, Belarus, Kenya, USA and Argentina