The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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Gorbachev's legacy
Sat 3 Sep 2022
Perestroika in the Soviet Union and the release of the dissident poet Ratushinskaya
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Inflation and the cost of living
Sat 27 Aug 2022
Inflation and the cost of living, the Darayya massacre, and the first Gay Games
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Seventy-five years since India's Partition
Sat 20 Aug 2022
A compilation of stories marking 75 years since India's Partition
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The nightclub that changed Ibiza
Sat 13 Aug 2022
Ibiza's clubbing scene, Indonesian forest fires and the resignation of Richard Nixon
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Fifty years since Asians were kicked out of Uganda
Sat 6 Aug 2022
A compilation of stories marking 50 years since Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda
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The Revolution on Granite
Sat 30 Jul 2022
A student protest in Ukraine, the Surkov leaks and the invention of the nicotine patch
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Stories from iconic TV shows from around the world
Sat 23 Jul 2022
The history of television from around the world and its enduring impact
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Stories from the abortion fight frontline
Sat 16 Jul 2022
Experiences from both sides of the abortion debate plus the story of the Pill
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America鈥檚 first gay election candidate
Sat 9 Jul 2022
Jose Sarria's political journey, Smear Tests, Discovery of Higgs Boson
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Hong Kong: 25 years since the handover from British to Chinese rule
Sat 2 Jul 2022
The last governor of Hong Kong, a pro democracy campaigner and life in Kowloon Walled City
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Egypt's first democratic Presidential election
Sat 25 Jun 2022
Egypt's first democratic election, the murder of Vincent Chin, the UK's first Pride march
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Cambodian genocide trials
Sat 18 Jun 2022
Cambodian Genocide trials, 'Napalm Girl' from the Vietnam War, and the Holy Cross dispute
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How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
Sat 11 Jun 2022
Suicide bombing attack on Sri Lanka's president, Anne Frank's diary and Gabon's forests
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The Syrian civil war
Sat 4 Jun 2022
Chemical weapons attack in Syria, lynching outlawed in America and the Queen's coronation
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Artists who made history
Sat 28 May 2022
Memories of Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, banned Russian art
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The Marcos regime in the Philippines
Sat 21 May 2022
The rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior; Shanghai during World War Two; McDonald's in Russia
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The war in Transnistria
Sat 14 May 2022
Moldova battles Russian-backed separatists; Egypt bread riots; Eyjafjallaj枚kull erupts
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Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Sat 7 May 2022
Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling
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Algeria's War of Independence
Sat 30 Apr 2022
60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic 鈥渂irth of a nation鈥�
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The Falkands War
Sat 9 Apr 2022
Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.
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Protesting against Putin
Sat 2 Apr 2022
A decade ago demonstrators tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
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Ukrainian history special
Sat 26 Mar 2022
The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
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Women who made history
Sat 12 Mar 2022
US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.
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Russia under Putin
Sat 5 Mar 2022
How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments
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LGBT history special
Sat 19 Feb 2022
Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.
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The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Sat 12 Feb 2022
Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future
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Kazakhstan's new capital
Sat 5 Feb 2022
Kazakhstan鈥檚 new capital, the first Emirati female teacher, and a rare celestial event
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Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
Sat 29 Jan 2022
UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.
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The rise of Boko Haram
Sat 22 Jan 2022
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
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Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
Sat 15 Jan 2022
The Indian independence campaigner who sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two.
