The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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The Second World War in Japan
Sat 8 Aug 2020
It鈥檚 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of WW2.
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Adrift for 76 Days
Sat 1 Aug 2020
Surviving the Atlantic in a liferaft, Spain's 1960s tourism boom, the death of Himmler
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The Million Man March
Sat 25 Jul 2020
Black Americans march on Washington, and the first Afghan women's refuge.
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South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Sat 18 Jul 2020
The horrors of a so-called Social Purification project and the birth of Club Med
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Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Sat 4 Jul 2020
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium; looted Nazi art works and the Rolling Stones in the dock
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Dealing with economic crisis
Sat 27 Jun 2020
How countries from around the world dealt with economic turmoil in the 20th century.
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Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Sat 20 Jun 2020
A UN sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia, the Five Stages of Grief, and Beethoven in China.
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Black American History Special
Sat 13 Jun 2020
Key moments in African American history - civil rights, basketball and the 3 strikes law.
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The Zanzibar revolution
Sat 6 Jun 2020
How a bloody revolution changed East Africa, the start of the WHO and remembering Christo
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The Gwangju massacre
Sat 30 May 2020
South Korea's Gwangju uprising; changing the way we eat; plus protecting Congo's forests
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Britain's World War Two crime wave
Sat 23 May 2020
How criminals thrived in London during the Blitz, 3D printers and the 1980 Miami riots.
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Fighting for the pill in Japan
Sat 16 May 2020
Why it took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.
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VE Day Special
Sat 9 May 2020
Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of World War Two in Europe.
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The 1957 flu pandemic
Sat 2 May 2020
A million die in 1957 flu, conflict in the Galapagos islands and trees in Hiroshima.
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The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
Sat 25 Apr 2020
The grandson of the last US slave, Pakistan's welfare hero and the Deepwater disaster.
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Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world
Sat 18 Apr 2020
50 years since the near disaster on the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon.
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How technology revolutionised our lives
Sat 11 Apr 2020
Memories of milestones from webcams to social networks, from the iPhone to home-shopping.
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Women in the law
Sat 4 Apr 2020
Trailblazing British lawyer Rose Heilbron, plus Muslims in China and a Swedish warship
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The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss
Sat 28 Mar 2020
How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate lost friends with a quilt.
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The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
Sat 21 Mar 2020
Putting an observatory in space; China's cure for malaria; the "Red Scare" in Hollywood.
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The 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic
Sat 14 Mar 2020
Eyewitnesses accounts of battling deadly viruses from the 1918 flu, to Ebola and SARS.
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The history of the Volkswagen Beetle
Sat 7 Mar 2020
How the British army helped rebuild the German car industry after WW2.
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Freeing American prisoners from Iran
Sat 29 Feb 2020
How a former prisoner fought to free her friends, an Antarctic mystery, and rebel nuns
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Saving Antarctica
Sat 22 Feb 2020
Environmentalists save the ice continent; how meditation changes the brain; Nigerian art.
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The publication of Harry Potter
Sat 15 Feb 2020
The origins of the boy wizard, plus Mao's Little Red Book and Erica Jong's Fear of Flying
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London's first black policeman
Sat 8 Feb 2020
London's first black policeman, a new sign language, and the release of Nelson Mandela
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The early days of the European Union
Sat 1 Feb 2020
The EU in the 1950s, the British royal scandal and the self-made female millionaire.
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The mystery of the disappearing frogs
Sat 25 Jan 2020
How scientists discovered that a deadly fungus was killing off amphibians.
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Storming the Stasi HQ
Sat 18 Jan 2020
East Germany's secret police; killing Osama Bin Laden; saving aristocrats' houses
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The Computers for Schools revolution
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Bringing laptops into education; the battle for Fallujah; environmentalist Chico Mendes.
