The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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The End of Apartheid
Sat 4 Feb 2017
Former South African police minister talks apartheid, Black Hawk Down and a polar record
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Sat 28 Jan 2017
Indigenous rights in Australia, the invention of the microwave, and Desert Island Discs.
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Roots - The TV Series
Sat 21 Jan 2017
Slavery on US TV, peace in El Salvador, Hrant Dink's murder; and Dungeons and Dragons.
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Princess Diana's Minefield Walk
Sat 14 Jan 2017
A royal visit boosts landmine campaigners, Turkey's headscarf pioneer and spying in WW1
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American Communists
Sat 7 Jan 2017
American Communists, gun-toting children in Albania and death and forgiveness in Ecuador.
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The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
Sat 31 Dec 2016
Key players in the fall of the USSR recall the momentous events of December 1991
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Death of an Anarchist
Christmas Eve 2016
The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett and flying to the moon
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Yoyes, ETA's female icon
Sat 17 Dec 2016
The death of a Basque fighter, resisting the Nazis in Lithuania, and a Hindu milk miracle
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100 Women History Hour
Sat 10 Dec 2016
A special edition of the programme remembering women that history has overlooked.
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Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt
Sat 3 Dec 2016
The shooting of Bob Marley, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, Colombia's Lost City
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The 1948 French Miners' Strike
Sat 26 Nov 2016
How coal miners in post-war France went from being seen as heroes, to pariahs.
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The Dili Massacre
Sat 19 Nov 2016
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
Sat 12 Nov 2016
Alleged sex abuse on a remote island, a controversial Kurdish song, men versus computers
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Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter
Sat 5 Nov 2016
The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.
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Shell Shock
Sat 29 Oct 2016
The psychiatric cost of WW1; Hungary's 1956 uprising, Marvel Comics and London's Big Bang
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The Mayak Nuclear Disaster
Sat 1 Oct 2016
A nuclear disaster, America's worst prison riot, World War Two internment and apartheid
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The University of Texas Shooting
Sat 6 Aug 2016
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
Sat 30 Jul 2016
America's fight against communism; giant China earthquake; riots in Liverpool; Picasso.
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Tanzania's Ujamaa
Sat 4 Jun 2016
Socialism in Tanzania, assassination in the Caribbean, the Concordski crash and Date Rape
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The Thalidomide Trial
Sat 28 May 2016
German drugs company goes on trial; Hands Across America; the execution of Anne Boleyn.
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Remembering Chernobyl
Sat 30 Apr 2016
Remembering Chernobyl, Charles Darwin and the McCarthy era, plus 60s icon, the Mini
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The Original Revolutionary Feminist
Sat 12 Mar 2016
Feminism in the 20th century, poisoning in the Balkans, and a miscarriage of justice
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The Battle of Verdun
Sat 20 Feb 2016
The battle that traumatised France, forbidden Tibet in the 1940s and fashion's New Look
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Prozac
Sat 6 Feb 2016
The birth of the Prozac generation, saving ancient Afghan artworks, plus a Disney classic
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The Challenger Disaster
Sat 30 Jan 2016
The launch of space shuttle Challenger goes horribly wrong, Sharia in Nigeria, and Batman.
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Michael Jackson's Thriller
Boxing Day 2015
The release of the world's best-selling album, the death of a WW2 hero, and Beagle 2
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The Battle of Tora Bora
Sat 12 Dec 2015
The hunt for Bin Laden, a KKK trial, the siege of Kut, and the Velvet Underground.
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The Amman Bombings
Sat 14 Nov 2015
Suicide bombings in Amman; a massacre in East Timor; and the fall of the Taliban
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The Death of Rock Hudson
Sat 3 Oct 2015
A Hollywood star dies of Aids, plus Buena Vista Social Club, Danish cartoons and Karaoke.
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Korea Divided
Sat 15 Aug 2015
Korea split after World War Two, the penal colony Devil's Island and Harry Potter
