The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Brown v The Board of Education
Racial segregation ends in US schools; Iran's 2009 election protest; and Weight Watchers
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The Trial of Maurice Papon
The French minister tried for Nazi collusion, the USSR's 007 and US wine beats French.
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The Invention of Liposuction
The start of the cosmetic surgery industry; the Tajik Civil War; and Magnum photo agency
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Searching For Argentina's Disappeared
Defying Argentina's military rulers, when Syria left Lebanon and Bosnia's rape camps.
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Charlie Chaplin Returns to America from Exile
Charlie Chaplin, images of the furthest galaxies and the world's first black festival.
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The Takeover of Russia's NTV
A setback for media freedom in Russia; Ethiopia's Red Terror; and WW2's Katyn massacre.
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How Princess Diana changed the perception of AIDS
A handshake that changed attitudes to AIDS, America enters WW1, and Egypt's Facebook girl
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The Flavr Savr Tomato - The World's First Genetically Engineered Food
The GM food debate, an anthrax outbreak in the Soviet Union, and the Teletubbies turn 20.
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Ayn Rand
An influential "objectivist" philosopher, and a political assassination in Colombia.
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The First Russian Revolution of 1917
The Russian Revolution, AIDS and 'Patient Zero' plus escaping the Nazis as a child.
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Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote
Kuwaiti women win the vote; smog in Mexico, and America's first Islamic terror incident
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Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint
Life with Mother Teresa, the birth of Nollywood and Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House.
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The German American Bund
Nazis in 1930s America; Slobodan Milosevic on trial; attacks on Denmark's Little Mermaid.
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Love and Marriage
From speed-dating to gay romance, from divorce to chastity, recent changes in love.
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Sanctuary Cities in the USA
US safe havens for undocumented immigrants, a killer killer whale, DNA, and a Kenyan hit.
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The End of Apartheid
Former South African police minister talks apartheid, Black Hawk Down and a polar record
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Indigenous rights in Australia, the invention of the microwave, and Desert Island Discs.
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Roots - The TV Series
Slavery on US TV, peace in El Salvador, Hrant Dink's murder; and Dungeons and Dragons.
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Princess Diana's Minefield Walk
A royal visit boosts landmine campaigners, Turkey's headscarf pioneer and spying in WW1
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American Communists
American Communists, gun-toting children in Albania and death and forgiveness in Ecuador.
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The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
Key players in the fall of the USSR recall the momentous events of December 1991
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Death of an Anarchist
The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett and flying to the moon
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Yoyes, ETA's female icon
The death of a Basque fighter, resisting the Nazis in Lithuania, and a Hindu milk miracle
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100 Women History Hour
A special edition of the programme remembering women that history has overlooked.
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Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt
The shooting of Bob Marley, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, Colombia's Lost City
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The 1948 French Miners' Strike
How coal miners in post-war France went from being seen as heroes, to pariahs.
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The Dili Massacre
Horror in East Timor, book-burning in Britain and the birth of the James Bond theme tune.
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The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial
Alleged sex abuse on a remote island, a controversial Kurdish song, men versus computers
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Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter
The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.
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Shell Shock
The psychiatric cost of WW1; Hungary's 1956 uprising, Marvel Comics and London's Big Bang
