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The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil

A clash between students in 1968 paved the way for a hardening of military rule.

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The Invention of Artificial Skin

How a chemist and a surgeon found a way of helping burns to heal.

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The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary

Slava Zaitsev created the first high fashion collections in the USSR.

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Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing

How Allan Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco in 1955 started the "Beat Generation".

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Reform of the House of Lords

How Britain's Labour government tried to kick the aristocrats out of Parliament

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Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden

In 1948 violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden

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The Nazi Black Book

During WW2 Germany listed the people it wanted to arrest should Britain fall to the Nazis

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Austria at War

The story of a young Austrian woman who survived World War Two and the allied occupation

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Archbishop Oscar Romero

Murdered while head of the Roman Catholic church in El Salvador, he is being made a saint

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Fighting Mount Etna

How the Italian authorities diverted the stream of molten lava from the Etna volcano.

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The 1973 Oil Crisis

In October 1973 an Arab oil embargo caused prices to rocket.

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Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon

How a small guerrilla group tried to start a revolution in the Brazilian jungle.

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The Pergau Dam Affair

In 1993 news broke about development aid linked to a British arms deal.

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When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola

When Belgian teenagers got sick they blamed Coca-Cola but the truth was more mysterious

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Desmond Tutu Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Apartheid South Africa's outspoken critic Bishop Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize

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The Arrest in London of Augusto Pinochet

The former ruler of Chile, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998

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Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'

The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's

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When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed

Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003

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The Day Nigeria Struck Oil

An eyewitness account of a discovery that changed Nigerian history

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The KGB's Whistleblower

KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's top secret archive was smuggled to Britain in 1992

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Life With America's Black Panthers

Memories of the radical African American leader, Eldridge Cleaver.

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Princess Margaret And The War Hero

How a love affair between the Queen's sister and Captain Peter Townsend gripped Britain.

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Why I Slapped the German Chancellor

In November 1968 a young activist hit Germany's leader to draw attention to his Nazi past

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A Kristallnacht story

Nora Krug investigated Nazi attacks in her German hometown on 9 November 1938

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The Battle of Passchendaele

It was one of the battles which symbolised the horror and futility of WW1

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African Troops during World War One

Thousands of East Africans were conscripted to fight for Britain and Germany during WW1

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Women Nurses during World War One

Thousands of women volunteered for war work during WW1. Hear archive from one of them.

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WW1: Revolution in Germany

Eyewitness accounts of the collapse of Germany in the final weeks of war in November 1918

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Armistice Day 1918

On November 11th 1918, at 11 o'clock, the guns of World War One finally fell silent

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How The Brazilian Dictatorship Made My Father Disappear

Writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva remembers the day his father was taken by the military.

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