The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Sat 24 Oct 2020
Why Portugal took a radical approach to drugs in 2001, plus theatre's Joan Littlewood
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CNN and the 24-hour news revolution
Sat 17 Oct 2020
The launch of CNN, the end of Lebanon's civil war and making a film in Saddam's Iraq.
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British black history special
Sat 10 Oct 2020
The voyage of the Empire Windrush, the battle of Lewisham and the creation of Desmond's
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The Mafia and Italian politics
Sat 3 Oct 2020
The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia plus the birth of Google.
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Blackwater killed my son
Sat 26 Sep 2020
How US private security guards killed 14 Iraqi civilians; plus Florida's election chaos
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Stories of resistance and protest from around the world
Sat 19 Sep 2020
Different protest stories from China, Belarus, Kenya, USA and Argentina
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Prohibition in India
Sat 12 Sep 2020
How the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995 plus the birth of Reddit
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Inventing James Bond
Sat 5 Sep 2020
Ian Fleming and the genesis of James Bond and the birth of the Sony Walkman
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Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
Sat 29 Aug 2020
The woman who fought for Nigerian independence plus the former policeman turned protestor
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The siege at Ruby Ridge
Sat 22 Aug 2020
The standoff that galvanised the US far-right; plus, growing up with Saddam Hussein.
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Beirut's hotel war
Sat 15 Aug 2020
Lebanon's civil war comes to Beirut's luxury hotel district, plus the first ventilators
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The Second World War in Japan
Sat 8 Aug 2020
It鈥檚 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of WW2.
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Adrift for 76 Days
Sat 1 Aug 2020
Surviving the Atlantic in a liferaft, Spain's 1960s tourism boom, the death of Himmler
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The Million Man March
Sat 25 Jul 2020
Black Americans march on Washington, and the first Afghan women's refuge.
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South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Sat 18 Jul 2020
The horrors of a so-called Social Purification project and the birth of Club Med
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Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Sat 4 Jul 2020
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium; looted Nazi art works and the Rolling Stones in the dock
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Dealing with economic crisis
Sat 27 Jun 2020
How countries from around the world dealt with economic turmoil in the 20th century.
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Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Sat 20 Jun 2020
A UN sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia, the Five Stages of Grief, and Beethoven in China.
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Black American History Special
Sat 13 Jun 2020
Key moments in African American history - civil rights, basketball and the 3 strikes law.
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The Zanzibar revolution
Sat 6 Jun 2020
How a bloody revolution changed East Africa, the start of the WHO and remembering Christo
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The Gwangju massacre
Sat 30 May 2020
South Korea's Gwangju uprising; changing the way we eat; plus protecting Congo's forests
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Britain's World War Two crime wave
Sat 23 May 2020
How criminals thrived in London during the Blitz, 3D printers and the 1980 Miami riots.
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Fighting for the pill in Japan
Sat 16 May 2020
Why it took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.
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VE Day Special
Sat 9 May 2020
Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of World War Two in Europe.
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The 1957 flu pandemic
Sat 2 May 2020
A million die in 1957 flu, conflict in the Galapagos islands and trees in Hiroshima.
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The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
Sat 25 Apr 2020
The grandson of the last US slave, Pakistan's welfare hero and the Deepwater disaster.
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Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world
Sat 18 Apr 2020
50 years since the near disaster on the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon.
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How technology revolutionised our lives
Sat 11 Apr 2020
Memories of milestones from webcams to social networks, from the iPhone to home-shopping.
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Women in the law
Sat 4 Apr 2020
Trailblazing British lawyer Rose Heilbron, plus Muslims in China and a Swedish warship
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The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss
Sat 28 Mar 2020
How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate lost friends with a quilt.
