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Prohibition in India
How the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995 plus the birth of Reddit
Inventing James Bond
Ian Fleming and the genesis of James Bond and the birth of the Sony Walkman
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
The woman who fought for Nigerian independence plus the former policeman turned protestor
The siege at Ruby Ridge
The standoff that galvanised the US far-right; plus, growing up with Saddam Hussein.
Beirut's hotel war
Lebanon's civil war comes to Beirut's luxury hotel district, plus the first ventilators
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.
Adrift for 76 Days
Surviving the Atlantic in a liferaft, Spain's 1960s tourism boom, the death of Himmler
The Million Man March
Black Americans march on Washington, and the first Afghan women's refuge.
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
The horrors of a so-called Social Purification project and the birth of Club Med
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
A government report into the riots of 1967 warned that white racism was dividing America
