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Her Story Made History

Her Story Made History: Madeha al-Ajroush

Madeha al-Ajroush battled for 30 years to get women the right to drive in Saudi Arabia

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Her Story Made History

Her Story Made History: Vigdis Finnbogadottir

In 1980, Vigdis Finnbogadottir became the first female head of state of Iceland

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Her Story Made History

Her Story Made History: Shukria Barakzai

Shukria Barakzai was one of a handful of female MPs in Afghanistan to speak up for women

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Her Story Made History

Her Story Made History: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa

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Her Story Made History

Vaira Vi姆e-Freiberga: The first female president of Latvia

Vaira Vi姆e-Freiberga became president of Latvia in 1999 and re-elected in 2003

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Her Story Made History

Betty Bigombe: Ugandan peace negotiator

Betty Bigombe spent much of her career trying to negotiate peace with warlord Joseph Kony

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Her Story Made History

Journalist Maria Ressa

Filipina-American journalist and author Maria Ressa is one of a few combating fake news

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Her Story Made History

Michelle Bachelet: Chile's first female president

How Michelle Bachelet rose to be the first woman to serve as president of Chile

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The Sunscreen Song: The class of '99

How director Baz Luhrmann鈥檚 unusual pop song became a global hit

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Living with leprosy

Aleks Krotoski on the history of leprosy and its stigma.

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World War Two: The economic battle

How the countries involved in WW2 fought to feed their people and fund their armies

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The imam and the artist

Searching for justice for South Africa鈥檚 Imam Abdullah Haron who spoke against apartheid

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America's child brides

In America children can get married legally in most states. Jane O'Brien investigates.

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How to buy your own country

The winners and losers from the booming global citizenship trade.

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Doctor Fake News

Medical student Elena ran out of money, so she started writing fake news stories for cash

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Where the homeless elephants go

Forced off their usual feeding routes, wild elephants surround a village in Assam, India

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Eighteen Greeks a week

Dead bodies travel along mountain passes for cremation in another country

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Imran is stateless

Imran fled violence in Myanmar 鈥� now he is in detention in Papua New Guinea

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The last cola in the desert

A Costa Rican city is an unexpected home for people in search of a better life in the US

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Useful Idiots

Episode 1

Lenin's description of intellectuals who gave their blessing to tyrannies and tyrants.

• 25 mins

Useful Idiots

Episode 2

Intelligent people manipulated by dictators into saying good things about bad regimes

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Passport to paradise

In Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific Island Nation, a controversial passport scheme is a concern

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Translating for mum and dad

Meet the children who help their immigrant parents navigate life in the UK by translating

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Cuba's digital revolution

Cubans are getting online 鈥� so how is the internet transforming this communist country?

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My personal history of sormeh

Black eye eyeliner is more than just make-up. It's a symbol of the power of Persian women

• 26 mins

The Gospel of Wealth

Gordon Brown meets billionaires inspired by the great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie

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Supersisters

Meet the inspirational women on whose shoulders today's female sport stars stand

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Looking for love: The Zoroastrian way

Nalini Sivathasan meets young Zoroastrians trying to save their religion from extinction

• 26 mins

Uganda's war in the bush

The guerrilla war in Uganda, which led to the current leadership.

• 49 mins

Northern Ireland 1969

Battle lines

How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began in August 1969

• 26 mins