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The History Hour Episodes

  1. International Space Station

    A new era in space exploration, East Timorese fighters and the kidnap of Sinatra's son.

  2. The Struggle Against Apartheid

    Key moments in the ANC's campaign to overturn South Africa's racist Apartheid policies

  3. Mandela and the Rivonia Trial

    Nelson Mandela's trial in 1963; Vietnam's Boat People; nuns murdered in 80s El Salvador

  4. The First Panda in America

    How a socialite brought a panda to New York; plus Conakry invaded, WW2 Allies and bikes

  5. Lee Harvey Oswald in the USSR

    The man who shot JFK - in the USSR; the Jonestown mass suicide; the first Doctor Who.

  6. Dustbowl

    How dust storms changed America in the 1930s, Armistice Day and a deadly boxing match.

  7. Degenerate Art and the Nazis

    Hitler's hatred of modern art, the death of Dylan Thomas, and marching in the Sahara.

  8. Hurricane Mitch

    Massive storms in Central America, Indira Gandhi's murder, plus Black Monday on Wall St.

  9. Spying for the Stasi

    Betrayal in East Berlin, Burundi's civil war heroine and Sydney Opera House opens.

  10. The Death of Grenada's Revolution

    The day Maurice Bishop was killed, escaping a Nazi death camp, and an ANC hero walks free

  11. Thomas Sankara African Revolutionary

    The inspiring African leader; Jews flee Nazi Denmark; and exotic dancer Josephine Baker.

  12. Israel's Secret Nuclear Weapons

    Israel's nuclear whistle-blower; Mao's American comrade; and Betty Ford gets sober

  13. The Kinsey Report into Female Sexuality

    Dr Kinsey's 1953 sex report; plus Chinese re-education and the Siege of Vukovar.

  14. Iraqi Chemical Attacks

    Gas attacks on Iraqi Kurds, secret Middle East talks, plus Duke Ellington in Kabul

  15. Military Coup in Chile

    Forty years since Pinochet's coup; the Alabama church bombing in 1963; and Project Tiger

  16. Special Operations Executive

    How the British trained spies in WWII, plus Jack the Ripper and war in Eritrea.

  17. Remembering Martin Luther King Jr

    THAT speech, plus murder in Mexico, Aboriginals on strike in Australia and Krakatoa

  18. The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

    Murder in the Philippines; the crushing of the Prague Spring; and human shields in Iraq.

  19. The Omagh Bombing

    Worst single attack in N. Ireland conflict; scientists flee Nazi Germany; Stanley Kubrick

  20. Burmese Protests

    The 1988 Burma uprising; the Nagasaki bomb; and a US model breaks the colour barrier.

  21. Jimmy Hoffa and the Mob

    The death of the union boss; a World War II shark attack; and a soap opera grips India.

  22. The End of the Korean War

    Sixty years since the Korean war ended, plus life with Joseph Kony and the start of AA

  23. Escape from the KGB

    Cold War spies and women's baseball, plus Hong Kong handover and Mandela's birthday bash

  24. Iran Student Protests

    Unrest in Iran, French resistance leader Jean Moulin and rockers protest against disco

  25. Students Set on Fire

    The students set on fire in Chile; the Battle of Gettysburg; and penguins in an oil spill.

  26. Cigarettes and Cancer

    The link between smoking and cancer, JFK in Ireland and pacifist Britten's War Requiem

  27. The First Woman in Space

    Russia puts a woman in orbit, America executes spy couple and the Rocky Horror Show opens.

  28. The Pentagon Papers

    The 1971 leak of Vietnam war secrets; Nigeria's president who never was; and much more

  29. The Oklahoma Bomber

    Inside the mind of Timothy McVeigh, plus Stalin's gulag, and a royal massacre in Nepal.

  30. The Ascent of Everest

    The first men on Everest's summit; Riotous ballet; The New Deal, the Queen's coronation

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