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The birth of the People's Republic of China

70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.

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Black British history

Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.

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An environmental history special

A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world

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The fall of the Berlin Wall

A look at events across Europe in 1989 that led to the wall coming down in Germany.

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'Jane' - the underground abortion service

The secret 1960s US abortion network and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef.

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Britain's secret propaganda war

'Fake news' in WW2, why Indian police blinded detainees and the Berlin Wall rock concert

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Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean

Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean; the demolition of the Ayodha mosque; Wilfred Owen

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I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests

An atrocity in El Salvador, the first Taser, and building the Delhi metro

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The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking

The scientist who pioneered synthesised speech. Plus the first US AIDS case. .

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The Cuban writer who defied Castro

The life and death of Reinaldo Arenas, plus Henry Moore and tracking down Pablo Escobar

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The Awakenings

A medical experiment that brought the catatonic back to life; and an IRA siege in the 70s

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The Romanian revolution

In December 1989 a wave of protests finally deposed communist dictator Nicolae Ceau葯escu.

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The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

The Soviet-Afghan war, the invention of chemotherapy, and Cirque du Soleil.

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The book that warned of an end to civilisation

Environmental warnings from 1972, El Salvador, East German punks and the Chippendales.

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The Computers for Schools revolution

Bringing laptops into education; the battle for Fallujah; environmentalist Chico Mendes.

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Storming the Stasi HQ

East Germany's secret police; killing Osama Bin Laden; saving aristocrats' houses

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The mystery of the disappearing frogs

How scientists discovered that a deadly fungus was killing off amphibians.

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The early days of the European Union

The EU in the 1950s, the British royal scandal and the self-made female millionaire.

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London's first black policeman

London's first black policeman, a new sign language, and the release of Nelson Mandela

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The publication of Harry Potter

The origins of the boy wizard, plus Mao's Little Red Book and Erica Jong's Fear of Flying

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Saving Antarctica

Environmentalists save the ice continent; how meditation changes the brain; Nigerian art.

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Freeing American prisoners from Iran

How a former prisoner fought to free her friends, an Antarctic mystery, and rebel nuns

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The history of the Volkswagen Beetle

How the British army helped rebuild the German car industry after WW2.

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The 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic

Eyewitnesses accounts of battling deadly viruses from the 1918 flu, to Ebola and SARS.

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The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

Putting an observatory in space; China's cure for malaria; the "Red Scare" in Hollywood.

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The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss

How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate lost friends with a quilt.

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Women in the law

Trailblazing British lawyer Rose Heilbron, plus Muslims in China and a Swedish warship

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How technology revolutionised our lives

Memories of milestones from webcams to social networks, from the iPhone to home-shopping.

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Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world

50 years since the near disaster on the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon.

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The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

The grandson of the last US slave, Pakistan's welfare hero and the Deepwater disaster.

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