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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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Saving Antarctica

Environmentalists save the ice continent; how meditation changes the brain; Nigerian art.

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Freeing American prisoners from Iran

How a former prisoner fought to free her friends, an Antarctic mystery, and rebel nuns

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The history of the Volkswagen Beetle

How the British army helped rebuild the German car industry after WW2.

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The 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic

Eyewitnesses accounts of battling deadly viruses from the 1918 flu, to Ebola and SARS.

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The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

Putting an observatory in space; China's cure for malaria; the "Red Scare" in Hollywood.

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The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss

How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate lost friends with a quilt.

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Women in the law

Trailblazing British lawyer Rose Heilbron, plus Muslims in China and a Swedish warship

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How technology revolutionised our lives

Memories of milestones from webcams to social networks, from the iPhone to home-shopping.

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Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world

50 years since the near disaster on the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon.

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The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

The grandson of the last US slave, Pakistan's welfare hero and the Deepwater disaster.

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The 1957 flu pandemic

A million die in 1957 flu, conflict in the Galapagos islands and trees in Hiroshima.

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VE Day Special

Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of World War Two in Europe.

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Fighting for the pill in Japan

Why it took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.

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Britain's World War Two crime wave

How criminals thrived in London during the Blitz, 3D printers and the 1980 Miami riots.

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The Gwangju massacre

South Korea's Gwangju uprising; changing the way we eat; plus protecting Congo's forests

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The Zanzibar revolution

How a bloody revolution changed East Africa, the start of the WHO and remembering Christo

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Black American History Special

Key moments in African American history - civil rights, basketball and the 3 strikes law.

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Sex trafficking and peacekeepers

A UN sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia, the Five Stages of Grief, and Beethoven in China.

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