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The Second World War in Japan

It’s 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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The Guerrilla Girls

Fighting sexism and racism in the 1980s art world, plus Pluto is downgraded

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The world's first woman premier

Sri Lanka's woman PM plus the first Arab leader to visit Israel and the women's sex book.

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Disability History special

The fight for disability rights in the UK, India, plus Helen Keller and the Invacar

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The fall of Addis Ababa

How rebels toppled Colonel Mengistu of Ethiopia; France's headscarf ban; WW2's V1 bombs

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The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize

The anti-apartheid campaigner Albert Luthuli plus a Neanderthal discovery and beavers.

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The birth of Bangladesh

How Bangladesh’s struggle for independence began with a landmark election in Pakistan.

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Film special

Featuring It’s A Wonderful Life, Studio Ghibli and Charlie Chaplin

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75 years of Unesco

Why Unesco was set up 75 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War.

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Buddhist on Death Row

How US prisoners turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike"

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Attack at the US Capitol

Puerto Rican militants attack Congress, India's first woman lawyer, landing on Titan

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Hitler's beer hall putsch

Hitler's first attempt at seizing power, anti-Sikh riots in India, and the Turner Diaries

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The Arab Spring of 2011

Eyewitness accounts of the sweeping social unrest against repressive regimes

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The Burma protests of 1988

The fight for democracy in Burma, US troops on drugs in Vietnam, the Moscow state circus

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US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter

Hundreds of civilians killed in a Gulf War airstrike; the newspaper to help the homeless

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Black History: The Black Panthers

How radical was the US black rights group? Plus, Mary Wilson of the Supremes

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The fall of Kwame Nkrumah

The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines

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