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The Cuban writer who defied Castro
The life and death of Reinaldo Arenas, plus Henry Moore and tracking down Pablo Escobar
The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking
The scientist who pioneered synthesised speech. Plus the first US AIDS case. .
I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
An atrocity in El Salvador, the first Taser, and building the Delhi metro
Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean
Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean; the demolition of the Ayodha mosque; Wilfred Owen
Britain's secret propaganda war
'Fake news' in WW2, why Indian police blinded detainees and the Berlin Wall rock concert
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
The secret 1960s US abortion network and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef.
The fall of the Berlin Wall
A look at events across Europe in 1989 that led to the wall coming down in Germany.
An environmental history special
A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world
Black British history
Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.
The birth of the People's Republic of China
70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.
