The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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The Iron Curtain
Sat 6 Mar 2021
Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, South Africa's Sharpeville massacre and a deep dive.
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The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Sat 27 Feb 2021
The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines
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Black History: The Black Panthers
Sat 20 Feb 2021
How radical was the US black rights group? Plus, Mary Wilson of the Supremes
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US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Hundreds of civilians killed in a Gulf War airstrike; the newspaper to help the homeless
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The Burma protests of 1988
Sat 6 Feb 2021
The fight for democracy in Burma, US troops on drugs in Vietnam, the Moscow state circus
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The Arab Spring of 2011
Sat 30 Jan 2021
Eyewitness accounts of the sweeping social unrest against repressive regimes
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Hitler's beer hall putsch
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Hitler's first attempt at seizing power, anti-Sikh riots in India, and the Turner Diaries
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Attack at the US Capitol
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Puerto Rican militants attack Congress, India's first woman lawyer, landing on Titan
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Buddhist on Death Row
Sat 9 Jan 2021
How US prisoners turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike"
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75 years of Unesco
Sat 2 Jan 2021
Why Unesco was set up 75 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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The birth of Bangladesh
Sat 19 Dec 2020
How Bangladesh鈥檚 struggle for independence began with a landmark election in Pakistan.
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The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Sat 12 Dec 2020
The anti-apartheid campaigner Albert Luthuli plus a Neanderthal discovery and beavers.
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The fall of Addis Ababa
Sat 5 Dec 2020
How rebels toppled Colonel Mengistu of Ethiopia; France's headscarf ban; WW2's V1 bombs
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Disability History special
Sat 28 Nov 2020
The fight for disability rights in the UK, India, plus Helen Keller and the Invacar
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The world's first woman premier
Sat 21 Nov 2020
Sri Lanka's woman PM plus the first Arab leader to visit Israel and the women's sex book.
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The Guerrilla Girls
Sat 14 Nov 2020
Fighting sexism and racism in the 1980s art world, plus Pluto is downgraded
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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Sat 7 Nov 2020
The murder of the Israeli leader; Germany's "Occupation Babies"; nude theatre in London
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US presidential history special
Sat 31 Oct 2020
Inside JFK's election victory, plus Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, and the religious right
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Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Sat 24 Oct 2020
Why Portugal took a radical approach to drugs in 2001, plus theatre's Joan Littlewood
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CNN and the 24-hour news revolution
Sat 17 Oct 2020
The launch of CNN, the end of Lebanon's civil war and making a film in Saddam's Iraq.
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British black history special
Sat 10 Oct 2020
The voyage of the Empire Windrush, the battle of Lewisham and the creation of Desmond's
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The Mafia and Italian politics
Sat 3 Oct 2020
The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia plus the birth of Google.
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Blackwater killed my son
Sat 26 Sep 2020
How US private security guards killed 14 Iraqi civilians; plus Florida's election chaos
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Stories of resistance and protest from around the world
Sat 19 Sep 2020
Different protest stories from China, Belarus, Kenya, USA and Argentina
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Prohibition in India
Sat 12 Sep 2020
How the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995 plus the birth of Reddit
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Inventing James Bond
Sat 5 Sep 2020
Ian Fleming and the genesis of James Bond and the birth of the Sony Walkman
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Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
Sat 29 Aug 2020
The woman who fought for Nigerian independence plus the former policeman turned protestor
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The siege at Ruby Ridge
Sat 22 Aug 2020
The standoff that galvanised the US far-right; plus, growing up with Saddam Hussein.
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Beirut's hotel war
Sat 15 Aug 2020
Lebanon's civil war comes to Beirut's luxury hotel district, plus the first ventilators
