The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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The Columbine school shooting
Mass murder in the US, the first play on Broadway by a black woman, and space tourism.
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The rise of Hindu nationalism
A religious rally called the Rath Yatra in 1990 championed militant Hinduism in India.
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Abolishing the army
How Costa Rica scrapped its armed forces, plus Maya Angelou and Sweden's famous warship.
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Drama in the British parliament
A political crisis in Britain, ballooning around the world and mindfulness.
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Autism and the MMR vaccine
How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
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China's breakthrough malaria cure
How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria
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I was abused by a President
How scandal engulfed Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, the Elgin marbles, Barbie's origins
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Venezuela's oil bonanza
When Venezuela was rich; surviving a mid-air airline disaster; the swine flu crisis
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The curse of Agent Orange
Vietnam's toxic legacy, smoking warnings ignored and Nazi remains discovered in Brazil.
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Iceland jails its bankers
Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 financial crisis plus the birth of the EU.
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The last days of Hitler
Life as Hitler's secretary; the killing of Che Guevara, and the Soweto Uprising
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The Iranian Revolution
Eye-witness accounts from the revolution that changed Iran and the World in 1979
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Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church
Sweeping changes at the Vatican, plus the ground-breaking women's publisher Virago.
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Strikers in Saris
How South Asian women led a UK industrial dispute, plus Dr Crippen and Judy Garland.
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When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors
Stalin's last terror campaign, Fidel Castro takes over Havana, and the world's seed vault
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Vikings in North America
Exciting discovery in Canada plus a rebel attack in Central America and Brazilian booty.
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UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
The most striking and well documented UFO "sightings" there have ever been.
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Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'
A passenger helps overcome Richard Reid, plus US apology for Japanese American internment
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Apollo 8
The astronauts who changed our view of the Earth, the rape of Nanking, WWII spy drama.
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Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family
Child survivor of a Guatemalan army massacre, Bokassa's coronation, Armenia's earthquake
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The Man Who Inspired Britain's First Aids Charity
The first British man to die of AIDS, 1950s whale hunting, and the real Indiana Jones
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The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers
The US welcomes Mexican migrants, the USSR welcomes foreign students plus Arafat's death
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Japanese Murders in Brazil
Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.
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The End of World War One
Eyewitness accounts of the devastating war that changed the world.
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Life With America's Black Panthers
Remembering the radical African American movement, and the KGB's whistleblower.
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When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed
Mikhail Khodorkovsky on his arrest in Russia, Nigerian oil and Desmond Tutu.
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When Belgium Banned Coca Cola
A strange illness strikes Belgian teenagers, Brazil's Amazon war, and the 1973 oil crisis
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The Nazi Black Book
The Nazi arrest list for Britain, wartime Austria, and anti-traveller riots in Sweden
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The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
The fighting in Sao Paulo in 1968 that drove Brazil deeper into military dictatorship.
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The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine
The creation of the cervical cancer vaccine, and the bridge between Denmark and Sweden.
