The History Hour Episodes Available now
The 1948 French Miners' Strike
How coal miners in post-war France went from being seen as heroes, to pariahs.
The Dili Massacre
Horror in East Timor, book-burning in Britain and the birth of the James Bond theme tune.
The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial
Alleged sex abuse on a remote island, a controversial Kurdish song, men versus computers
Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter
The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.
Shell Shock
The psychiatric cost of WW1; Hungary's 1956 uprising, Marvel Comics and London's Big Bang
The Mayak Nuclear Disaster
A nuclear disaster, America's worst prison riot, World War Two internment and apartheid
The University of Texas Shooting
The first campus killings in the US; an arts festival in Lebanon; meeting JD Salinger
First CIA coup in Latin America
America's fight against communism; giant China earthquake; riots in Liverpool; Picasso.
Tanzania's Ujamaa
Socialism in Tanzania, assassination in the Caribbean, the Concordski crash and Date Rape
The Thalidomide Trial
German drugs company goes on trial; Hands Across America; the execution of Anne Boleyn.
