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Space travel and Mary Poppins

Befriending Soviet cosmonauts and why the author of Mary Poppins hated the film

• 51 mins

Marriage bars and a Moon mission

The law that banned married women from working and Apollo 13's attempted trip to the Moon

• 49 mins

Ethiopian history

It’s 50 years since Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a military coup

• 50 mins

New Zealand’s first dinosaur and India’s plague outbreak

How New Zealand's first dinosaur was discovered and the pneumonic plague in India

• 51 mins

South Africa’s Immorality Act and India's Mars Orbiter Mission

South Africa's ban on inter-racial relationships, the Estonia ferry disaster and Tupac

• 51 mins

Latin America's longest plane hijacking and Kristallnacht

How one Latin American flight was hijacked for 60 hours and the infamous Kristallnacht

• 51 mins

Technology and artificial intelligence

The stories behind the first electronic computers, chatbots, QR codes and humanoid robots

• 50 mins

Flower revolutions

The Sunflower Movement in Taiwan in 2014 and the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003

• 51 mins

Dungeons & Dragons and dinosaur remains

Fifty years of the fantasy tabletop role-play game and a fossil discovery

• 51 mins

Magic, illusion and tigers

The Siegfried and Roy show in Las Vegas which ended in a tiger attack and tragedy in 2003

• 51 mins

Female heroes of WW2 and the Iranian Revolution

Female heroes from WW2, the pioneering 'Baby' computer and the Iranian Revolution

• 51 mins

The ‘Battle of the Surfaces’ and becoming a republic

A half-clay, half-grass tennis court, losing a crown and a mine rescue

• 50 mins

The Siege of Yarmouk and Iran's 'house churches'

The pianist who played on when Damascus was bombed and the Christians who met in secret

• 50 mins