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The History Hour Episodes

  1. Britain's Landslide 1945 Election

    In July 1945 Labour won a surprise victory, defeating war-time leader Winston Churchill.

  2. The Manhattan Project

    First Atom bomb, poison gas in 1915, survivng sharks in WW2 and Uruguay's hero Ghiggia

  3. Tamil Doctors and the Sri Lankan Civil War

    The violent end of Sri Lanka's civil war; a KGB spy escapes; Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  4. Helen Keller

    Deaf and blind Helen Keller, Red Cross visits Nazi concentration camp, Berlin Love Parade

  5. Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR

    Marshal Tito shuns Stalin, the downing of Air India Flight 182 and saving the whale.

  6. Iran's Cultural Revolution

    Iran's Islamic hardliners shut universities to drive out secular opposition

  7. Denmark's Inuit Experiment

    Inuit children sent for re-education in 1951, the Six Day War, and a refugee boat tragedy

  8. The Eichmann Tapes

    The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was interviewed while in hiding in Argentina.

  9. The Heysel Stadium Disaster

    One of Europe's worst stadium disasters; housing segregation in the US; Italy in WW1

  10. Archbishop Romero of San Salvador

    The murder of an outspoken Salvadoran Archbishop, a coup in Fiji and the Elephant Man

  11. Siege of The Church of the Nativity

    In May 2002 gunmen and civilians, were holed up in one of Christianity's most holy sites.

  12. VE Day

    WW2 ends in Europe, chemical weapons tests on UK soldiers, Aden's independence struggle

  13. The US Evacuation of Saigon

    In the last days of April 1975 thousands of people were airlifted out of Vietnam

  14. The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

    Operation Eagle Claw, the death of Einstein and the musical Carousel.

  15. The Bloods and Crips Truce

    In April 1992, two Los Angeles gangs signed a cease-fire.

  16. The ‘Death of a Princess’ film

    The TV film which caused a diplomatic crisis, Idi Amin’s downfall and riots in the USA

  17. The 1943 Bengal Famine

    Millions die of famine in British-ruled India, US Marshall Plan & Ireland bans smoking

  18. The History of the Black Box

    Australian David Warren invented flight recorders which give clues to why planes crash.

  19. Golda Meir

    Israel's first woman prime minister; Escaping East Berlin; America's biggest art heist.

  20. The Mysterious Death of an MP in Kenya

    JM Kariuki's murder in Kenya plus Jackie Kennedy's secret romance with Aristotle Onassis

  21. The German Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    The Nazis invade Czechoslovakia, being Stalin's interpreter and the real Von Trapp family

  22. The battle for Iwo Jima

    The fight for the Pacific island in WW2; the looting of Benin's bronzes; and a CIA mole.

  23. The Murder of Daniel Pearl

    The killing of the US journalist in Pakistan, Martha Gellhorn, and the Bee Gees.

  24. The Sophiatown Removals

    How the South African government destroyed a mixed-race suburb, plus Dresden and Minamata

  25. The Conflict is Over

    Secret peace talks in Northern Ireland, McDonald's opens in Moscow, and Bertrand Russell

  26. Escaping a Nazi train to Auschwitz

    The boy who escaped a Nazi death train plus America's first black presidential candidate

  27. US Drone War

    A US drone operator speaks out, Patrice Lumumba, plus football hooligans and Al Capone

  28. Somalia's Rural Literacy Campaign

    Teaching nomads in Somalia, the WWII Raoul Wallenberg mystery, and Agatha Christie dies

  29. Evidence of the Big Bang

    An unexpected discovery to prove the Big Bang Theory, Guantanamo opens and Prague spring

  30. The Biggest Rock Concert Ever

    Rod Stewart remembers Rio, Portugal's Casa Pia scandal, plus the first Big Brother.

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