The History Hour Episodes Available now
100 Women History Hour
A special edition of the programme remembering women that history has overlooked.
Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt
The shooting of Bob Marley, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, Colombia's Lost City
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.
