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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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The 1957 flu pandemic

A million die in 1957 flu, conflict in the Galapagos islands and trees in Hiroshima.

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VE Day Special

Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of World War Two in Europe.

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Fighting for the pill in Japan

Why it took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.

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Britain's World War Two crime wave

How criminals thrived in London during the Blitz, 3D printers and the 1980 Miami riots.

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The Gwangju massacre

South Korea's Gwangju uprising; changing the way we eat; plus protecting Congo's forests

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The Zanzibar revolution

How a bloody revolution changed East Africa, the start of the WHO and remembering Christo

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Black American History Special

Key moments in African American history - civil rights, basketball and the 3 strikes law.

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Sex trafficking and peacekeepers

A UN sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia, the Five Stages of Grief, and Beethoven in China.

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Dealing with economic crisis

How countries from around the world dealt with economic turmoil in the 20th century.

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Quarantined in a TB sanatorium

Quarantined in a TB sanatorium; looted Nazi art works and the Rolling Stones in the dock

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The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist

A government report into the riots of 1967 warned that white racism was dividing America

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South Korea's 1980s prison camps

The horrors of a so-called Social Purification project and the birth of Club Med

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The Million Man March

Black Americans march on Washington, and the first Afghan women's refuge.

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Adrift for 76 Days

Surviving the Atlantic in a liferaft, Spain's 1960s tourism boom, the death of Himmler

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The Second World War in Japan

It鈥檚 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of WW2.

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Beirut's hotel war

Lebanon's civil war comes to Beirut's luxury hotel district, plus the first ventilators

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The siege at Ruby Ridge

The standoff that galvanised the US far-right; plus, growing up with Saddam Hussein.

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Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer

The woman who fought for Nigerian independence plus the former policeman turned protestor

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Inventing James Bond

Ian Fleming and the genesis of James Bond and the birth of the Sony Walkman

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Prohibition in India

How the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995 plus the birth of Reddit

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Stories of resistance and protest from around the world

Different protest stories from China, Belarus, Kenya, USA and Argentina

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Blackwater killed my son

How US private security guards killed 14 Iraqi civilians; plus Florida's election chaos

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The Mafia and Italian politics

The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia plus the birth of Google.

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British black history special

The voyage of the Empire Windrush, the battle of Lewisham and the creation of Desmond's

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CNN and the 24-hour news revolution

The launch of CNN, the end of Lebanon's civil war and making a film in Saddam's Iraq.

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Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs

Why Portugal took a radical approach to drugs in 2001, plus theatre's Joan Littlewood

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US presidential history special

Inside JFK's election victory, plus Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, and the religious right

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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

The murder of the Israeli leader; Germany's "Occupation Babies"; nude theatre in London

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