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When Tunisia led on women's rights

Liberation for Tunisia's women in the 1950s; gay and lesbian fake marriages in China

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The anti-nuclear protesters who won

The protest which stopped the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Germany.

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The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'

Why French returnees from the colony of Algeria were ostracised after independence.

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The division of Kashmir

How Kashmir was separated, the warnings about 9/11, Carlos the Jackal and Dr Seuss.

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The return of the wolf

Restoring the wolf in the US, the liberation of Paris and El Salvador's lost children

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The Kindertransport children

Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone

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The outbreak of World War Two

Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.

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Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war

How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.

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The Cambridge spy network

The distinguished British art historian exposed as a former Soviet spy.

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Fighting the Islamic State group online

The Mosul historian who battled IS online, plus growing up black under Hitler

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The birth of the People's Republic of China

70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.

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Black British history

Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.

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An environmental history special

A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world

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The fall of the Berlin Wall

A look at events across Europe in 1989 that led to the wall coming down in Germany.

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'Jane' - the underground abortion service

The secret 1960s US abortion network and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef.

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Britain's secret propaganda war

'Fake news' in WW2, why Indian police blinded detainees and the Berlin Wall rock concert

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Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean

Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean; the demolition of the Ayodha mosque; Wilfred Owen

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I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests

An atrocity in El Salvador, the first Taser, and building the Delhi metro

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The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking

The scientist who pioneered synthesised speech. Plus the first US AIDS case. .

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The Cuban writer who defied Castro

The life and death of Reinaldo Arenas, plus Henry Moore and tracking down Pablo Escobar

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The Awakenings

A medical experiment that brought the catatonic back to life; and an IRA siege in the 70s

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The Romanian revolution

In December 1989 a wave of protests finally deposed communist dictator Nicolae Ceau葯escu.

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The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

The Soviet-Afghan war, the invention of chemotherapy, and Cirque du Soleil.

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The book that warned of an end to civilisation

Environmental warnings from 1972, El Salvador, East German punks and the Chippendales.

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The Computers for Schools revolution

Bringing laptops into education; the battle for Fallujah; environmentalist Chico Mendes.

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Storming the Stasi HQ

East Germany's secret police; killing Osama Bin Laden; saving aristocrats' houses

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The mystery of the disappearing frogs

How scientists discovered that a deadly fungus was killing off amphibians.

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The early days of the European Union

The EU in the 1950s, the British royal scandal and the self-made female millionaire.

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London's first black policeman

London's first black policeman, a new sign language, and the release of Nelson Mandela

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The publication of Harry Potter

The origins of the boy wizard, plus Mao's Little Red Book and Erica Jong's Fear of Flying

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