The life and times of the great surrealist artist, Salvador Dali Read more
now playing
Salvador Dali
The life and times of the great surrealist artist, Salvador Dali
The Vege-Burger
How one of the mainstays of vegetarian cuisine was launched in 1982
The Invention of the Lego Brick
How one of the world's most popular toys was invented in a small Danish town in 1958
The "Godfather of Gospel Music"
Thomas A Dorsey is credited with developing Gospel music into a global phenomenon.
US Psychological Warfare in Vietnam
How American military PSYOP teams waged war in Vietnam in the 1960s.
The Bloody Sunday Shootings
Tony Doherty recalls the murder of his father by British troops in Northern Ireland
No Sex in the USSR
How a satellite TV link-up between American and Soviet women led to misunderstanding.
Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive
How a surprise attack became a turning point in the Vietnam war
Hungary's Jewish Underground
During WW2 thousands of fake documents helped save Jews from the Nazis in Hungary.
The Roots of the Rohingya Crisis
The complex history behind the world's fastest growing refugee crisis.
Lahore Cricket Attack
Islamist militants attacked a convoy of international cricketers in Pakistan in 2009.
Banning The Belt
How two Scottish mothers forced the UK government to end corporal punishment in schools
China's Crackdown on Falun Gong
The Chinese government banned the spiritual movement, Falun Gong, in 1999.
Bringing Nazi Leader Klaus Barbie To Justice
The extradition to France of the man known as 'the butcher of Lyon'
The Birth of the Water Baby
French obstetrician Dr Michel Odent encouraged women to use water to ease childbirth.
Women in Britain get the right to vote
On 6th February 1918, women in Britain were given the right to vote for the first time
The Hanafi Hostage Siege
How American Muslim gunmen took more than 100 people hostage in the US capital in 1977.
The Munich Air Disaster
The 1958 plane crash that killed eight of Manchester United's famous "Busby Babes" team.
The Killing of Vincent Chin
The brutal murder of a young Chinese-American man sparked a civil rights movement.
Spying On South Africa's Nuclear Bomb
Renfrew Christie was jailed and tortured for passing details of the bomb to the ANC
Camouflaging Leningrad in World War Two
Russian mountaineers disguised monuments in the city to protect them from enemy fire.
The Bombing Of Korean Flight 858
In 1987, 115 people died in an attack ordered by North Korea to disrupt the Olympic Games
Sartre and de Beauvoir
The love affair between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir lasted for 50 years.
Hull's 'Headscarf Revolutionaries'
The British fishermen's wives who fought for better safety standards in their industry
Women's Rights In Iran
Iran's first ever Minister for Women's Affairs was appointed in 1975.
Leonardo's Lost Notebooks
In 1967 two long-lost notebooks of the artist Leonardo da Vinci were discovered in Spain
The Furies Collective: Lesbian Separatists
A group of US feminists set up a commune to live entirely without men in 1971.
Vietnam War: The Battle for Hue
Communist forces overran the key city in 1968 triggering one of the war's biggest battles
Ghana Must Go
Over a million African migrants, most of them Ghanaian, had to leave Nigeria in 1983
Jimmy Swaggart's Fall From Grace
How one of America's most successful televangelists was caught with a prostitute
The Boy in the Bubble
David Vetter was born with a disease which meant he lived inside a plastic bubble