The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Sat 8 Jan 2022
The liberation leader was assassinated in 1969 in the struggle to end Portuguese rule
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A history of games
New Year's Day 2022
The inside story of Pong, Grand Theft Auto, Tetris, Lego and Monopoly
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The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
Christmas Day 2021
The Saudi women who used social media to campaign against being banned from the roads.
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The birth of Bangladesh
Sat 18 Dec 2021
How a war of independence in 1971 reshaped South Asia and killed hundreds of thousands.
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The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Sat 27 Nov 2021
Women activists in the Caribbean, the last case of Smallpox in Europe and assisted dying.
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Sudan's October Revolution
Sat 20 Nov 2021
How in 1964 Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime
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The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
Sat 13 Nov 2021
The killing of Eudy Simelane, spying in East Germany and racism in 1960s British schools
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When Eritrea silenced its critics
Sat 6 Nov 2021
A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu
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The child environmental activist of the 1990s
Sat 30 Oct 2021
Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.
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The Greenham Common women's peace camp
Sat 23 Oct 2021
The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years
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The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
Sat 16 Oct 2021
In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan
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Black history: Britain and race
Sat 9 Oct 2021
London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.
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Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Sat 2 Oct 2021
Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe
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Kenya: Westgate mall attack
Sat 25 Sep 2021
Inside the Westgate attack in Kenya, the murder of Litvinenko, plus Onassis and Kennedy
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The earthquake that devastated Haiti
Sat 18 Sep 2021
In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake
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9/11 and the war on terror
Sat 11 Sep 2021
A special edition on the terrorist attacks on America and how they changed the world.
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Surviving the fall of Saigon
Sat 4 Sep 2021
A Vietnamese veteran remembers the fall of south Vietnam , and Kim Il Sung up close
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My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
Sat 28 Aug 2021
How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America
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US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon
Sat 21 Aug 2021
The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975
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The Berlin Wall
Sat 14 Aug 2021
In 1961, communist East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe
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Chipko: India鈥檚 tree-hugging women
Sat 7 Aug 2021
The 1970s environmental movement, a child who fled Biafra, an American news pioneer
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Darfur's ethnic war
Sat 24 Jul 2021
Darfur - a child's story, Brazil's first law on domestic violence and Vincent van Gogh.
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When the Taliban ruled Kabul
Sat 17 Jul 2021
Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine
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North Korea's 1990s famine
Sat 10 Jul 2021
How hundreds of thousands died of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea
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Supernatural sightings
Sat 3 Jul 2021
UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer.
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The Confederate flag and America鈥檚 battle over race
Sat 19 Jun 2021
One African-American woman鈥檚 act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.
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When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
Sat 12 Jun 2021
The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections
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The war on drugs
Sat 5 Jun 2021
US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971
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Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend
Sat 29 May 2021
Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike.
