The History Hour Episodes Available now
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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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The Mayak Nuclear Disaster
A nuclear disaster, America's worst prison riot, World War Two internment and apartheid
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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.
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Tanzania's Ujamaa
Socialism in Tanzania, assassination in the Caribbean, the Concordski crash and Date Rape
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The Thalidomide Trial
German drugs company goes on trial; Hands Across America; the execution of Anne Boleyn.