The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Dinosaur discoveries and a Berlin Wall treehouse
Prehistoric eggs, a dinosaur in court and the treehouse built beside the Berlin Wall.
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West African food and computer viruses
The rise of Mr Bigg's in Nigeria and the man who made the first personal computer virus
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Wartime surrenders and the birth of Barbie
A compilation of this week's Witness History episodes
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Five great inventions that changed the world
The world's first robot dog, the first emoji and the invention of the Rubik's Cube
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Tourism arrives in the Maldives and a royal night out
How tourism began in the Maldives, the start of the NHS in the UK and a royal night out
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South Korea store collapse and Lady Gaga's meat dress
Seoul's department store collapse and the man who made Lady Gaga's meat dress
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Somalia's civil war and golf on the moon
The Somali pilot who defied orders to bomb civilians, and playing golf on the moon
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Amazing photographs and the people who took them
Focusing on Lee Miller in Hitler's bath, a shell-shocked US marine and an unseen Africa
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Inuit children taken from families and Le Mans crash
Why children like Adamie Kalingo were taken from their indigenous communities in Canada
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Scaling Everest, the highest mountain in the world
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to reach the summit of Everest
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Bosnian concentration camp photo and hero clown
A shocking photo from the Yugoslav war and how a clown helped after an earthquake in Peru
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Singapore executes Filipina maid and German child evacuees of World War Two
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week鈥檚 Witness History episodes
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World War Two African victory and 'Kai Tak heart attack'
The Allies' campaign in North Africa and the last flight out of a Hong Kong airport
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The 'Stone of Destiny' and a self-proclaimed Emperor
The removal of a symbolic royal stone and the former child King turned Prime Minister
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Artist Althea McNish and history of the Met Gala
Trinidadian Althea McNish designs for Queen Elizabeth II and the Met Gala's popularity
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The history of dogs
Inventing the labradoodle, the first dog in space and the world's first therapy dog
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Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing
The unearthing of a mass grave in Ukraine, and the Boston bombing in 2013
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Escaping Eritrea and inventing Zumba
One woman's journey to escape Eritrea and how Zumba was invented by accident
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The godfather of manicures and India's Silicon Valley
Vietnam's manicure godfather and how Bengaluru became India鈥檚 Silicon Valley
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Film and cinema around the world
The longest running Indian film and freeing Free Willy
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The Invasion of Iraq
Stories marking 20 years since the American led invasion of Iraq in March 2003
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International Women's Day
A compilation of stories celebrating women who made history
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Pink triangles and political assassinations
Gay men in Nazi concentration camps and the murder of Serbia's Prime Minister
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Riots in Mauritius and the Queen 'jumping out of a helicopter'
Ethnic tensions in Mauritius and the Queen's 2012 Olympic wow moment
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'Hot Autumn' and Tutankhamun
Workers' strikes in Italy and 100 years since the opening of Tutankhamun's burial chamber
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Popes
Stories about the history of the papacy, including Benedict XVI's resignation
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Pirate radio and the Velvet Divorce
The first black music station in Europe and why Czechoslovakia split into two states
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The death penalty and broadcasting bans
A prison guard and a hangman discuss capital punishment among other stories
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Horsemeat scandal and the Miracle on the Hudson
Horsemeat found in burgers and the aeroplane which safely landed on water in New York
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Plastics in oceans and sea cucumbers
Plastics in oceans were first discovered over fifty years ago
