The History Hour Episodes Available now

Autism and the MMR vaccine
How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine to autism.

China's breakthrough malaria cure
How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria

I was abused by a President
How scandal engulfed Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, the Elgin marbles, Barbie's origins

Venezuela's oil bonanza
When Venezuela was rich; surviving a mid-air airline disaster; the swine flu crisis

The curse of Agent Orange
Vietnam's toxic legacy, smoking warnings ignored and Nazi remains discovered in Brazil.

Iceland jails its bankers
Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 financial crisis plus the birth of the EU.

The last days of Hitler
Life as Hitler's secretary; the killing of Che Guevara, and the Soweto Uprising

The Iranian Revolution
Eye-witness accounts from the revolution that changed Iran and the World in 1979

Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church
Sweeping changes at the Vatican, plus the ground-breaking women's publisher Virago.

Strikers in Saris
How South Asian women led a UK industrial dispute, plus Dr Crippen and Judy Garland.