The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China
The Chinese leader recalled by his translator, plus protests in Albania and graffiti art.
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Women and the Iranian Revolution
How the 1979 Islamic Revolution changed Iranian women's lives, plus Solzhenitsyn's widow.
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The Georgian-Abkhaz War
Conflict in the south Caucasus, Beatlemania, plus breaking codes with Colossus.
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WW2, Holocaust and Rome
The fate of Rome's Jews, plus the Cairo Fire, and the last American diplomat in Cuba
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World's First Nuclear-Powered Submarine
USS Nautilus launched; serial killer Ted Bundy killed; voluntary starvation for science.
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The First Battle of Fallujah
US assault on Fallujah; WW2's Battle of Monte Cassino; and Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend
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The Impeachment of Bill Clinton
Sex and the American presidency; Mother Teresa; and the story behind 12 Years A Slave.
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Zapatista Rebels in Mexico
An indigenous revolt in Chiapas; the traitor Lord Haw Haw; Iran protests; and Edith Piaf.
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Grand Theft Auto
The game that shocked the world; interned in Manila in WW2, the real Gorillas in the Mist
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International Space Station
A new era in space exploration, East Timorese fighters and the kidnap of Sinatra's son.
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The Struggle Against Apartheid
Key moments in the ANC's campaign to overturn South Africa's racist Apartheid policies
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Mandela and the Rivonia Trial
Nelson Mandela's trial in 1963; Vietnam's Boat People; nuns murdered in 80s El Salvador
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The First Panda in America
How a socialite brought a panda to New York; plus Conakry invaded, WW2 Allies and bikes
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Lee Harvey Oswald in the USSR
The man who shot JFK - in the USSR; the Jonestown mass suicide; the first Doctor Who.
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Dustbowl
How dust storms changed America in the 1930s, Armistice Day and a deadly boxing match.
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Degenerate Art and the Nazis
Hitler's hatred of modern art, the death of Dylan Thomas, and marching in the Sahara.
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Hurricane Mitch
Massive storms in Central America, Indira Gandhi's murder, plus Black Monday on Wall St.
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Spying for the Stasi
Betrayal in East Berlin, Burundi's civil war heroine and Sydney Opera House opens.
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The Death of Grenada's Revolution
The day Maurice Bishop was killed, escaping a Nazi death camp, and an ANC hero walks free
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Thomas Sankara African Revolutionary
The inspiring African leader; Jews flee Nazi Denmark; and exotic dancer Josephine Baker.
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Israel's Secret Nuclear Weapons
Israel's nuclear whistle-blower; Mao's American comrade; and Betty Ford gets sober
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The Kinsey Report into Female Sexuality
Dr Kinsey's 1953 sex report; plus Chinese re-education and the Siege of Vukovar.
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Iraqi Chemical Attacks
Gas attacks on Iraqi Kurds, secret Middle East talks, plus Duke Ellington in Kabul
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Military Coup in Chile
Forty years since Pinochet's coup; the Alabama church bombing in 1963; and Project Tiger
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Special Operations Executive
How the British trained spies in WWII, plus Jack the Ripper and war in Eritrea.
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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr
THAT speech, plus murder in Mexico, Aboriginals on strike in Australia and Krakatoa
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The Assassination of Benigno Aquino
Murder in the Philippines; the crushing of the Prague Spring; and human shields in Iraq.
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The Omagh Bombing
Worst single attack in N. Ireland conflict; scientists flee Nazi Germany; Stanley Kubrick
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Burmese Protests
The 1988 Burma uprising; the Nagasaki bomb; and a US model breaks the colour barrier.
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Jimmy Hoffa and the Mob
The death of the union boss; a World War II shark attack; and a soap opera grips India.