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The History Hour Episodes

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    Brazil

    Stories from Brazil, including the murder of Tim Lopes and the creation of Brasilia

  2. Gorbachev's legacy

    Perestroika in the Soviet Union and the release of the dissident poet Ratushinskaya

  3. Inflation and the cost of living

    Inflation and the cost of living, the Darayya massacre, and the first Gay Games

  4. Seventy-five years since India's Partition

    A compilation of stories marking 75 years since India's Partition

  5. The nightclub that changed Ibiza

    Ibiza's clubbing scene, Indonesian forest fires and the resignation of Richard Nixon

  6. Fifty years since Asians were kicked out of Uganda

    A compilation of stories marking 50 years since Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda

  7. The Revolution on Granite

    A student protest in Ukraine, the Surkov leaks and the invention of the nicotine patch

  8. Stories from iconic TV shows from around the world

    The history of television from around the world and its enduring impact

  9. Stories from the abortion fight frontline

    Experiences from both sides of the abortion debate plus the story of the Pill

  10. America鈥檚 first gay election candidate

    Jose Sarria's political journey, Smear Tests, Discovery of Higgs Boson

  11. Hong Kong: 25 years since the handover from British to Chinese rule

    The last governor of Hong Kong, a pro democracy campaigner and life in Kowloon Walled City

  12. Egypt's first democratic Presidential election

    Egypt's first democratic election, the murder of Vincent Chin, the UK's first Pride march

  13. Cambodian genocide trials

    Cambodian Genocide trials, 'Napalm Girl' from the Vietnam War, and the Holy Cross dispute

  14. How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing

    Suicide bombing attack on Sri Lanka's president, Anne Frank's diary and Gabon's forests

  15. The Syrian civil war

    Chemical weapons attack in Syria, lynching outlawed in America and the Queen's coronation

  16. Artists who made history

    Memories of Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, banned Russian art

  17. The Marcos regime in the Philippines

    The rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior; Shanghai during World War Two; McDonald's in Russia

  18. The war in Transnistria

    Moldova battles Russian-backed separatists; Egypt bread riots; Eyjafjallaj枚kull erupts

  19. Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

    Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling

  20. Algeria's War of Independence

    60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic 鈥渂irth of a nation鈥�

  21. Women's rights in Iraq

    What is life like for women in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003?

  22. War crimes in the former Yugoslavia

    How the conflicts in the Balkans resonate today amid the fighting in Ukraine

  23. The Falkands War

    Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.

  24. Protesting against Putin

    A decade ago demonstrators tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power

  25. Ukrainian history special

    The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

  26. Architecture that made history

    From India to London, from skyscrapers to museums, the stories behind global landmarks.

  27. Women who made history

    US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.

  28. Russia under Putin

    How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments

  29. LGBT history special

    Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.

  30. The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history

    Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future

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