The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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The division of Kashmir
Sat 17 Aug 2019
How Kashmir was separated, the warnings about 9/11, Carlos the Jackal and Dr Seuss.
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The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
Sat 10 Aug 2019
Why French returnees from the colony of Algeria were ostracised after independence.
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The anti-nuclear protesters who won
Sat 3 Aug 2019
The protest which stopped the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Germany.
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When Tunisia led on women's rights
Sat 27 Jul 2019
Liberation for Tunisia's women in the 1950s; gay and lesbian fake marriages in China
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Exploring space
Sat 20 Jul 2019
To mark the Apollo 11 Moon landing, personal accounts of landmarks in space exploration.
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Kenya's ivory inferno
Sat 13 Jul 2019
Highlighting the threat from poaching, solving the common cold, plus China and the tampon
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Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'
Sat 6 Jul 2019
Life under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, kidnapped by the Contras and the first Walkman.
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The Stonewall riot
Sat 29 Jun 2019
The riot that inspired the gay rights movement; genocide against the Kurds; and Catch-22
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The assassination of Medgar Evers
Sat 22 Jun 2019
An American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star and the psychoanalyst CG Jung
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The first anti-psychotic drug
Sat 15 Jun 2019
A mental health breakthrough, the end of the Kosovan war, and a trailblazing gay wedding.
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D-Day
Sat 8 Jun 2019
Eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings, Vikings in England and the Little Prince
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Tiananmen Square
Sat 1 Jun 2019
Remembering Tiananmen Square, the internet's first social network, and Sesame Street
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Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
Sat 25 May 2019
LBGT activism in Uganda, the start of Greenpeace, Bangladesh acid attacks, and dinosaurs.
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The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
Sat 18 May 2019
The last battles of a brutal conflict plus how the Nazis stole children.
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The war on drugs
Sat 11 May 2019
US efforts to deal with illegal drugs in 1971, plus the rise of Jack Ma in China.
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The Malayan Emergency
Sat 4 May 2019
Battling a communist insurgency in the 50s, sinking the Belgrano and the "Arctic African"
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The al Yamamah arms deals
Sat 27 Apr 2019
The controversial Anglo-Saudi deal, South Africa's historic election, the first "Vegan"
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The Columbine school shooting
Sat 20 Apr 2019
Mass murder in the US, the first play on Broadway by a black woman, and space tourism.
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The rise of Hindu nationalism
Sat 13 Apr 2019
A religious rally called the Rath Yatra in 1990 championed militant Hinduism in India.
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Abolishing the army
Sat 6 Apr 2019
How Costa Rica scrapped its armed forces, plus Maya Angelou and Sweden's famous warship.
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Drama in the British parliament
Sat 30 Mar 2019
A political crisis in Britain, ballooning around the world and mindfulness.
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Autism and the MMR vaccine
Sat 23 Mar 2019
How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
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China's breakthrough malaria cure
Sat 16 Mar 2019
How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria
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I was abused by a President
Sat 9 Mar 2019
How scandal engulfed Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, the Elgin marbles, Barbie's origins
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Venezuela's oil bonanza
Sat 2 Mar 2019
When Venezuela was rich; surviving a mid-air airline disaster; the swine flu crisis
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The curse of Agent Orange
Sat 23 Feb 2019
Vietnam's toxic legacy, smoking warnings ignored and Nazi remains discovered in Brazil.
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Iceland jails its bankers
Sat 16 Feb 2019
Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 financial crisis plus the birth of the EU.
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The last days of Hitler
Sat 9 Feb 2019
Life as Hitler's secretary; the killing of Che Guevara, and the Soweto Uprising
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The Iranian Revolution
Sat 2 Feb 2019
Eye-witness accounts from the revolution that changed Iran and the World in 1979
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Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church
Sat 26 Jan 2019
Sweeping changes at the Vatican, plus the ground-breaking women's publisher Virago.
