The History Hour Episodes Available now
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The Cuban writer who defied Castro
The life and death of Reinaldo Arenas, plus Henry Moore and tracking down Pablo Escobar
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The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking
The scientist who pioneered synthesised speech. Plus the first US AIDS case. .
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I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
An atrocity in El Salvador, the first Taser, and building the Delhi metro
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Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean
Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean; the demolition of the Ayodha mosque; Wilfred Owen
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Britain's secret propaganda war
'Fake news' in WW2, why Indian police blinded detainees and the Berlin Wall rock concert
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'Jane' - the underground abortion service
The secret 1960s US abortion network and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
A look at events across Europe in 1989 that led to the wall coming down in Germany.
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An environmental history special
A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world
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Black British history
Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.
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The birth of the People's Republic of China
70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.