The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
The anti-apartheid campaigner Albert Luthuli plus a Neanderthal discovery and beavers.
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The fall of Addis Ababa
How rebels toppled Colonel Mengistu of Ethiopia; France's headscarf ban; WW2's V1 bombs
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Disability History special
The fight for disability rights in the UK, India, plus Helen Keller and the Invacar
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The world's first woman premier
Sri Lanka's woman PM plus the first Arab leader to visit Israel and the women's sex book.
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The Guerrilla Girls
Fighting sexism and racism in the 1980s art world, plus Pluto is downgraded
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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The murder of the Israeli leader; Germany's "Occupation Babies"; nude theatre in London
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US presidential history special
Inside JFK's election victory, plus Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, and the religious right
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Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Why Portugal took a radical approach to drugs in 2001, plus theatre's Joan Littlewood
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CNN and the 24-hour news revolution
The launch of CNN, the end of Lebanon's civil war and making a film in Saddam's Iraq.
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British black history special
The voyage of the Empire Windrush, the battle of Lewisham and the creation of Desmond's
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The Mafia and Italian politics
The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia plus the birth of Google.
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Blackwater killed my son
How US private security guards killed 14 Iraqi civilians; plus Florida's election chaos
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Stories of resistance and protest from around the world
Different protest stories from China, Belarus, Kenya, USA and Argentina
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Prohibition in India
How the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995 plus the birth of Reddit
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Inventing James Bond
Ian Fleming and the genesis of James Bond and the birth of the Sony Walkman
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Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
The woman who fought for Nigerian independence plus the former policeman turned protestor
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The siege at Ruby Ridge
The standoff that galvanised the US far-right; plus, growing up with Saddam Hussein.
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Beirut's hotel war
Lebanon's civil war comes to Beirut's luxury hotel district, plus the first ventilators
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The Second World War in Japan
It鈥檚 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of WW2.
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Adrift for 76 Days
Surviving the Atlantic in a liferaft, Spain's 1960s tourism boom, the death of Himmler
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The Million Man March
Black Americans march on Washington, and the first Afghan women's refuge.
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South Korea's 1980s prison camps
The horrors of a so-called Social Purification project and the birth of Club Med
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The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
A government report into the riots of 1967 warned that white racism was dividing America
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Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium; looted Nazi art works and the Rolling Stones in the dock
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Dealing with economic crisis
How countries from around the world dealt with economic turmoil in the 20th century.
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Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
A UN sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia, the Five Stages of Grief, and Beethoven in China.
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Black American History Special
Key moments in African American history - civil rights, basketball and the 3 strikes law.
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The Zanzibar revolution
How a bloody revolution changed East Africa, the start of the WHO and remembering Christo
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The Gwangju massacre
South Korea's Gwangju uprising; changing the way we eat; plus protecting Congo's forests
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Britain's World War Two crime wave
How criminals thrived in London during the Blitz, 3D printers and the 1980 Miami riots.
