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The History Hour Episodes

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    The Break-Up of the Soviet Union

    Key players in the fall of the USSR recall the momentous events of December 1991

  2. Death of an Anarchist

    The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett and flying to the moon

  3. Yoyes, ETA's female icon

    The death of a Basque fighter, resisting the Nazis in Lithuania, and a Hindu milk miracle

  4. 100 Women History Hour

    A special edition of the programme remembering women that history has overlooked.

  5. Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt

    The shooting of Bob Marley, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, Colombia's Lost City

  6. The 1948 French Miners' Strike

    How coal miners in post-war France went from being seen as heroes, to pariahs.

  7. The Dili Massacre

    Horror in East Timor, book-burning in Britain and the birth of the James Bond theme tune.

  8. The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial

    Alleged sex abuse on a remote island, a controversial Kurdish song, men versus computers

  9. Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter

    The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.

  10. Shell Shock

    The psychiatric cost of WW1; Hungary's 1956 uprising, Marvel Comics and London's Big Bang

  11. Bugging the US Embassy in Moscow

    Spying on America's embassy in the USSR, the Mau Mau rebellion and the Aberfan disaster.

  12. Chile Votes Against Pinochet

    In Oct 1988 Chileans voted to end the rule of General Augusto Pinochet in a referendum.

  13. Exposing Child Abuse in the Catholic Church

    The investigative journalist who lifted the lid on Irish child sex abuse.

  14. The Mayak Nuclear Disaster

    A nuclear disaster, America's worst prison riot, World War Two internment and apartheid

  15. The First Legal 'Physician-Assisted Suicide'

    In 1996 an Australian doctor legally helped a terminally ill man to die.

  16. The Invention of the Tank

    The first tanks during WW1; Peru's Shining Path movement; America's 2001 anthrax attacks.

  17. How Europe Won Over the British Left

    British unions turning to Europe, Italian partisans fighting fascists, Mao as a man.

  18. The Mexican American War

    We hear about the lowest point in US-Mexican relations, plus the last case of Smallpox.

  19. Stockholm Syndrome

    We hear from one of the hostages in the first documented case of Stockholm Syndrome.

  20. Conflict over a Tree in the DMZ

    Death in Korea's no-man's land, the birth of the national parks and Studio Ghibli.

  21. The Nairobi Embassy Bombing

    A Kenyan hero who survived al Qaeda attack, Man on Wire, the Krays and digging up Masada

  22. The University of Texas Shooting

    The first campus killings in the US; an arts festival in Lebanon; meeting JD Salinger

  23. First CIA coup in Latin America

    America's fight against communism; giant China earthquake; riots in Liverpool; Picasso.

  24. Medicare

    America's government health insurance programme, plus Chinua Achebe and Bruce Lee.

  25. The Nestle Boycott

    1970s consumer pressure on big business, plus child refugees from 80 years ago.

  26. Denmark's 2nd EU Referendum

    A re-run vote in Denmark, conflict in Slovenia, Cuba's army elite on trial & Ron Kovic.

  27. The Battle of the Somme

    Veterans recall horrific WW1 battle, forced sterilisation in Peru, London's Great Plague

  28. Space Crash

    A crash on the Mir space station, an African-American in the USSR, and the Bobbit case.

  29. The Launch of the Moral Majority

    The launch of the 'Moral Majority' in the USA, Mount Pinatubo and TV in Bhutan.

  30. The Attack on the Osirak Nuclear Reactor

    Israel's attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, plus Ritalin, da Vinci and US Civil Rights.

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