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Edgar Feuchtwanger: Adolf Hitler's Neighbour

The memories of a German Jew who grew up across the street from Adolf Hitler.

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Baby Fae and the Baboon Heart Transplant

In 1984 doctors in California tried a revolutionary operation on a two-week-old baby girl.

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Colombia mudslide

It's 27 years since over 20,000 people died when a volcano erupted in western Colombia.

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China's one-child policy

Created to tackle China's expanding population, but how was the one-child policy enforced?

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The Lost Tribe Hoax

The Filipino stone-age cave dwellers who fooled the scientific community.

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Cesar Chavez - Yes we can!

How the Mexican-American trade union leader Cesar Chavez inspired Latinos in the 1960s.

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Shoot

In November 1971 a young American artist decided to get a friend to take a shot at him.

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Windsor Castle Fire

How a fire devastated Queen Elizabeth's weekend home in 1992.

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The death of the Kabaka of Buganda

In 1969 the first President of Uganda, Edward Mutesa, died in exile in London.

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Lee Harvey Oswald and the USSR

Lee Harvey Oswald had spent two years living in the USSR after serving there as a Marine

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The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

20 years ago the world's first webcam was set up - and it was pointed at a pot of coffee.

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The Secret Soviet Naval Mutiny

In November 1975, an incredible mutiny took place aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic.

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Isabelle Dinoire: The World's First Face Transplant

In November 2005, doctors in France carried out the first ever face transplant.

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Eric Hebborn - Forger Extraordinary

The story of one of the most prolific art forgers of the 20th Century.

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Iran Hostage Crisis - The Canadian Story

In November 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in Tehran.

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First Successful Sex Change

The story of Christine Jorgensen who had surgery to change her sex from a man to a woman.

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The Bhopal gas disaster

In December 1984 thousands of people in the Indian city were killed by a chemical leak.

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Witness: The Bodyline Tour

In 1932 a row between England and Australia over cricket became a diplomatic incident.

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Great London Smog of 1952

How the worst smog in living memory lasted five days and killed thousands of Londoners.

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The Montreal massacre

On 6 December 1989, a college shooting in Canada left 14 women dead.

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Landing in Red Square

A German teenager managed to evade Soviet defences to land in Moscow's Red Square.

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The Origin of Nollywood

The story of the 1992 film which launched Nigeria's hugely successful movie industry

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Operation Restore Hope

In December 1992 US Marines landed on the beaches of Somalia.

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Archive of Terror

How a huge cache of papers showed the true extent of torture across 1970s South America.

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Marsha Hunt and the 1960s

In the late 1960s a young black American woman rolled up in 'Swinging' London.

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Discovering Cleopatra's Palace

Twenty years ago underwater excavations began which unearthed a 2000 year old palace.

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The M Room

How exiles from the Nazis helped British intelligence listen in on German prisoners-of-war

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Piltdown Man

In 1912, Britain's top palaeontologists were hoaxed by a "missing link" in human evolution

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The last men on the moon

The story of the last US space mission to the moon 40 years ago

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Libya and Weapons of Mass Destruction

In December 2003 Colonel Gaddafi announced Libya was giving up trying to make WMD

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