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The Cuban Five
The case of five Cuban spies arrested in Miami in September 1998
The Arnhem Parachute Drop
In 'Operation Market Garden' thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi-held Holland
The Battle of Algiers
The film that tells the true story of the Algerians' fight for their capital Algiers
Brazil's Nuclear Accident
Hundreds of people were contaminated when a disused radiotherapy machine was scrapped.
The South African Army In Lesotho
South Africa sent 600 soldiers into Lesotho to quell political unrest in September 1998
Isadora Duncan - Dance Pioneer
Sometimes called the 'Mother of Modern Dance'
The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine
The scientific breakthrough that saved the lives of thousands of women
Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War
The war lasted for 8 years and is thought to have left over a million people dead.
The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark
The bridge which connected neighbours across the water and inspired a TV hit worldwide.
Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine
The former West Indies cricketer took a London hotel to court in 1943
The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
A clash between students in 1968 paved the way for a hardening of military rule.
The Invention of Artificial Skin
How a chemist and a surgeon found a way of helping burns to heal.
The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary
Slava Zaitsev created the first high fashion collections in the USSR.
Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing
How Allan Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco in 1955 started the "Beat Generation".
Reform of the House of Lords
How Britain's Labour government tried to kick the aristocrats out of Parliament
Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden
In 1948 violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden
The Nazi Black Book
During WW2 Germany listed the people it wanted to arrest should Britain fall to the Nazis
Austria at War
The story of a young Austrian woman who survived World War Two and the allied occupation
Archbishop Oscar Romero
Murdered while head of the Roman Catholic church in El Salvador, he is being made a saint
Fighting Mount Etna
How the Italian authorities diverted the stream of molten lava from the Etna volcano.
The 1973 Oil Crisis
In October 1973 an Arab oil embargo caused prices to rocket.
Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon
How a small guerrilla group tried to start a revolution in the Brazilian jungle.
The Pergau Dam Affair
In 1993 news broke about development aid linked to a British arms deal.
When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola
When Belgian teenagers got sick they blamed Coca-Cola but the truth was more mysterious
Desmond Tutu Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Apartheid South Africa's outspoken critic Bishop Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize
The Arrest in London of Augusto Pinochet
The former ruler of Chile, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998
Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'
The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's
When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed
Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003
The Day Nigeria Struck Oil
An eyewitness account of a discovery that changed Nigerian history
The KGB's Whistleblower
KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's top secret archive was smuggled to Britain in 1992
Life With America's Black Panthers
Memories of the radical African American leader, Eldridge Cleaver.