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The History Hour Episodes

  1. Carlos the Jackal

    Capturing Carlos, an attempt to kill Franco plus The Supremes and the Wizard of Oz

  2. Internment in Northern Ireland

    Detention without trial in Northern Ireland, Mississippi Burning, and Lindow Man.

  3. The Outbreak of World War One

    Witnesses to the start of WW1, The Comet, Martha Stewart in jail and Christian the lion

  4. The First Palestinian Intifada

    The first intifada, plus the Jewish centre bombed in Argentina and Prince's Purple Rain

  5. The Plot to Kill Hitler

    The son of the man who tried to kill Hitler, Chappaquiddick and remembering Frida Kahlo.

  6. The Srebrenica Massacre

    Srebrenica massacre, Pakistan's Red Mosque, death of Kim il Sung, Rainbow Warrior, Neruda

  7. Iraq after the Invasion

    Iraqis remember abuse in Abu Ghraib jail, plus a US soldier on the Awakening movement.

  8. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    The murder that sparked WW1, a hijacking in 1950s Burma, early computer dating

  9. The River That Caught Fire

    The US river that burst into flames, Russia's Mata Hari and the OJ Simpson car chase.

  10. Brazil Special

    As the football World Cup kicks off in Brazil, we explore the country's rich history

  11. Broadcasting D-Day

    The allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, Tiananmen Square and a Nepali royal massacre

  12. The Fall of Addis Ababa

    Rebels take over Ethiopia's capital, remembering Nehru, plus casinos and space monkeys

  13. Uprising in South Korea

    The uprising in South Korea, Rajiv Ghandi assasination, and the Pope and the Jews

  14. Jailed for Speaking his Mind in China

    Confronting Chairman Mao, Steve Biko, escaping the Holocaust & England's mods and rockers

  15. Terror in Iran

    Revolutionary courts and executions in Iran, Paul Robeson, a President of Crimea and Abba

  16. The Port Arthur Massacre

    Killings that changed Australia; China's Long March, and the death of Mussolini

  17. Greece - The 1967 Military Coup

    In April 1967 a group of colonels seized power in Athens hear from a man who opposed them

  18. North Korea Train Station Explosion

    In a rare moment of openness, authorities in Pyongyang asked the UN for help in 2004

  19. The Fall of Idi Amin

    Ugandan dictator Idi Amin ousted; Rwandan genocide; the discovery of the polio vaccine.

  20. Crime Protests in Argentina

    The murder that galvanised Argentina; India's independence movement; 成人快手 spaghetti hoax

  21. Missing Plane Mystery

    1947 missing plane mystery; "Doctor Death" Jack Kevorkian; and a Maori song hits no.1.

  22. A Failed Royal Kidnapping

    The bodyguard shot saving Princess Anne; discovery of AZT; Uganda cult murder & much more

  23. Lebanon Civil War

    A key moment in the Lebanon conflict; Taiwan massacre; suffragettes and Barbie the Doll.

  24. The Miss World Protest

    Feminist protesters storm the stage at the Miss World beauty pageant in 1970.

  25. Stalin's Mass Deportations

    The forced exile of hundreds of thousands of people in the USSR, plus political comedy

  26. Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China

    The Chinese leader recalled by his translator, plus protests in Albania and graffiti art.

  27. Women and the Iranian Revolution

    How the 1979 Islamic Revolution changed Iranian women's lives, plus Solzhenitsyn's widow.

  28. The Georgian-Abkhaz War

    Conflict in the south Caucasus, Beatlemania, plus breaking codes with Colossus.

  29. WW2, Holocaust and Rome

    The fate of Rome's Jews, plus the Cairo Fire, and the last American diplomat in Cuba

  30. World's First Nuclear-Powered Submarine

    USS Nautilus launched; serial killer Ted Bundy killed; voluntary starvation for science.

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