成人快手

Cixi: China's most powerful woman

She was the power behind the Chinese throne for decades

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Jane: The underground abortion network

How feminists ended up performing abortions for women in 1960s America

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The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles

Melina Mercouri, actress turned politician, requested the marbles be returned to Greece

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The first Indian to win Miss World

Reita Faria was the first Indian to win the Miss World beauty competition in 1966

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Paris is Burning

The groundbreaking film about drag queens and LGBTQ+ people in New York

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Jamaica鈥檚 鈥榙rug lord鈥�

The hunt for the Jamaican drug lord which left dozens of civilians dead

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Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden

The story of Swedish social reformer, Alva Myrdal, who won the Nobel peace prize in 1982

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Mars-500 isolation experiment

Why six men were locked inside a spacecraft on earth for 520 days

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The dirtiest chess match in history

How the 1978 World Chess Championship was overshadowed by allegations of dirty tricks

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The Ulster Workers' Strike

Protestant workers went on strike in Northern Ireland in 1974

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Banksy鈥檚 first street art mural

It鈥檚 difficult to pinpoint the first major piece of Banksy street art, could this be it?

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The woman who got America talking about sex

Dr Ruth Westheimer first became popular on a radio show in New York in the early 1980s

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South Africa takes on big pharma

The fight between Big Pharma and South Africa over the right to import cheap drugs.

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The fight against slavery in Mauritania

Brahim Bilal Ramdhane was born into slavery in the 1960s, now he fights against it.

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Anorexia nervosa

The death of the singer, Karen Carpenter, showed how devastating the illness could be.

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When the prisoners ran the prison

Prisoners at Walpole maximum security prison were in charge for three months in 1973

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Mrs Thatcher鈥檚 ground-breaking Soviet TV interview

How Mrs Thatcher shook up the Soviet media with a landmark interview in Moscow.

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Kidnapped on an orchid hunt

How two Englishmen were seized by Colombian rebels while crossing the lawless Darien Gap

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Black Jesus

In 1967 an African American church minister began preaching that Jesus was black.

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The women who reclaimed the night

How women in England took to the streets to protest against a serial killer

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Mexico's female serial killer

Juana Barraza was found guilty of murdering at least eleven elderly women in Mexico city

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David Attenborough's first expedition

The 成人快手 programme that launched the career of the famous nature broadcaster

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From Leningrad to St Petersburg

How the people of Russia's second city dropped the great communist leader's name

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Discovering the Jet Stream

Air raids and balloon bombs - the strange story behind the discovery of the Jet Stream

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The US Supreme Court's first woman justice

In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman judge at America's top court

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How a worm helped explain human development

The nematode worm c. elegans has enabled all sorts of discoveries about human biology

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Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs

Hear from a Cuban who fought against the US-backed exiles that invaded Cuba in April 1961

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The vultures saved from extinction

South Asian vultures started dying in huge numbers in the 1990s but no one knew why.

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China's 'Kingdom of women'

An ancient matrilineal society which doesn't believe in marriage and where the women rule

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The Eichmann trial

In April 1961 the Nazi official who ran holocaust death camps was put on trial in Israel

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