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    30/08/2010

    Mike Thomson investigates how Whitehall undermined democracy in British Guiana.

  2. 23/08/2010

    Mike Thomson explores claims that the poisoning of a French town in 1951 was an LSD trial.

  3. 16/08/2010

    What happened to the toxic chemicals released in the Piper Alpha oil disaster in 1988?

  4. Propaganda in Northern Ireland

    Mike Thomson investigates the shadowy world of black propaganda in Northern Ireland.

  5. German PoWs in the UK

    Mike Thomson investigates the story behind the German PoWs forced to work in Britain.

  6. 08/03/2010

    Mike Thomson investigates Britain's secret involvement in the North Yemen Civil War.

  7. Churchill and Spain in World War 2

    Mike Thomson on Churchill's desperate efforts to keep Spain out of the Second World War.

  8. 23/11/2009

    Mike Thomson investigates Britain's role during the 1970 coup in oil-rich Oman.

  9. 16/11/2009

    How Harold Macmillan misled parliament in 1960 over claims of war prisoner brainwashing.

  10. 06/04/2009

    Why black soldiers in the French army were denied the glory of liberating Paris in 1944.

  11. Leyland Buses, Cuba and the CIA

    Mike examines allegations that the CIA sabotaged a shipment of buses from Britain to Cuba.

  12. 大象传媒 Bias and the Iranian Revolution

    Uncovering papers which accused the 大象传媒 of biased reporting of the Iranian revolution.

  13. Britain's Cuban Missile Crisis

    Mike examines the events surrounding a massacre of Allied POWs by the Japanese in 1943.

  14. The Case of the Suez Maru

    Mike examines the events surrounding a massacre of Allied POWs by the Japanese in 1943.

  15. The Doomsday Document

    In 1974, Harold Wilson drew up a plan to separate Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK

  16. Stop Pakistan

    What actions did America contemplate to prevent Pakistan from becoming a nuclear power?

  17. 大象传媒 Broadcasts from the Bunker

    The 大象传媒 devised a programme schedule to be transmitted in the event of a nuclear attack.

  18. Operation Safe Haven

    In 1948, a KLM representative asked Swiss police to ease travel restrictions for Germans.

  19. The Gift of Democracy?

    Mike Thomson asks whether the British tried to rig Nigeria's first democratic elections.

  20. The White House Coup, 1933

    During the 1930s, some of Wall Street's most famous names plotted to overthrow Roosevelt.

  21. The Ghosts of Greenham

    How Greenham Common was classed as one of the most dangerous missile sites of all.

  22. A Date with Bevin

    Series using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events.

  23. A Laudable Invasion?

    Series using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events.

  24. Kenya's Bloody Summer

    A tale of murder and cover-up by the British Army in Kenya 50 years ago.

  25. The Woman Who Never Was

    Mike Thomson re-visits a document that split the country in two.

  26. The Marriage Cordiale

    The extraordinary tale of the 1956 French offer to merge Britain and France into one.

  27. Franco's British Friends

    Mark Thompson uncovers evidence of British aid to Franco during the Spanish Civil War.

  28. Dad's Revolutionary Army

    Mike Thomson examines the origins of Britain' s wartime Home Guard.

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