The History Hour Episodes Available now
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West African food and computer viruses
The rise of Mr Bigg's in Nigeria and the man who made the first personal computer virus
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Wartime surrenders and the birth of Barbie
A compilation of this week's Witness History episodes
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Five great inventions that changed the world
The world's first robot dog, the first emoji and the invention of the Rubik's Cube
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Tourism arrives in the Maldives and a royal night out
How tourism began in the Maldives, the start of the NHS in the UK and a royal night out
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South Korea store collapse and Lady Gaga's meat dress
Seoul's department store collapse and the man who made Lady Gaga's meat dress
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Somalia's civil war and golf on the moon
The Somali pilot who defied orders to bomb civilians, and playing golf on the moon
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Amazing photographs and the people who took them
Focusing on Lee Miller in Hitler's bath, a shell-shocked US marine and an unseen Africa
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Inuit children taken from families and Le Mans crash
Why children like Adamie Kalingo were taken from their indigenous communities in Canada
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Scaling Everest, the highest mountain in the world
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to reach the summit of Everest
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Bosnian concentration camp photo and hero clown
A shocking photo from the Yugoslav war and how a clown helped after an earthquake in Peru