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The History Hour Episodes

  1. The Mysterious Death of an MP in Kenya

    JM Kariuki's murder in Kenya plus Jackie Kennedy's secret romance with Aristotle Onassis

  2. The German Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    The Nazis invade Czechoslovakia, being Stalin's interpreter and the real Von Trapp family

  3. The battle for Iwo Jima

    The fight for the Pacific island in WW2; the looting of Benin's bronzes; and a CIA mole.

  4. The Murder of Daniel Pearl

    The killing of the US journalist in Pakistan, Martha Gellhorn, and the Bee Gees.

  5. The Sophiatown Removals

    How the South African government destroyed a mixed-race suburb, plus Dresden and Minamata

  6. The Conflict is Over

    Secret peace talks in Northern Ireland, McDonald's opens in Moscow, and Bertrand Russell

  7. Escaping a Nazi train to Auschwitz

    The boy who escaped a Nazi death train plus America's first black presidential candidate

  8. US Drone War

    A US drone operator speaks out, Patrice Lumumba, plus football hooligans and Al Capone

  9. Somalia's Rural Literacy Campaign

    Teaching nomads in Somalia, the WWII Raoul Wallenberg mystery, and Agatha Christie dies

  10. Evidence of the Big Bang

    An unexpected discovery to prove the Big Bang Theory, Guantanamo opens and Prague spring

  11. The Biggest Rock Concert Ever

    Rod Stewart remembers Rio, Portugal's Casa Pia scandal, plus the first Big Brother.

  12. The Battle of the Bulge

    Hitler's last gamble, the 1914 Christmas truce, a pirate DJ at sea, and peace in Nepal

  13. Cuba Special

    The USA is to normalise relations with Cuba - we look back at their troubled relationship

  14. The Hunt for BRCA2

    The search for a key 'cancer gene', Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and the Kyoto conference

  15. Britain's First Woman MP

    The remarkable Lady Astor, Hong Kong's 1967 riots, Lebanon's civil war and US free speech

  16. The Destruction of the Bridge at Mostar

    The Bridge at Mostar, Australia's rabbit plague, India's Eton and Kraftwerk

  17. The Nuremberg Trials

    The last Nazi prosecutor, priests murdered in El Salvador, Mitterand's secret daughter

  18. The Marsh Arabs

    The destruction of Iraq's marshes by Saddam Hussein

  19. The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    The fall of the Berlin Wall, Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees, and Sigmund Freud.

  20. The War that led to Peace

    The Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973, the oil shock which followed it and a jewel heist.

  21. The Ethiopia Famine

    The TV report that alerted the world to starvation in Ethiopia in 1984

  22. The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev

    The Soviet leader is forced out, London dock strike, and a controversial feminist play

  23. The Death of Che Guevara

    The CIA man who tracked down Che; the devastating Boer War, plus Thatcher and Hong Kong

  24. Willie Nelson's Farm Aid

    Benefit concert for poor US farmers, Japan launches world's fastest train, and James Dean

  25. The World's First Hand Transplant

    A transplant which didn't end well; The Cuban 5; Senegal ferry disaster; Bokassa falls.

  26. Crisis in Lesotho

    South Africa invades Lesotho, 'Black September' in the Middle East, Mexico earthquake

  27. Flower of Scotland

    Scotland's unofficial national anthem, Chairman Mao's wife, DNA fingerprinting and more

  28. Surviving Auschwitz

    A survivor remembers Auschwitz; publishing Dr Zhivago; Swinging London's favourite shop.

  29. World War One in Africa

    WWI African veterans, the suicide of a Brazilian President, escape of deadly smallpox

  30. The Betrayal of the Kurds

    Iraqi Kurds abandoned by Iran, the WW2 liberation of Paris, and the Partition of India

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