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Life With America's Black Panthers
Remembering the radical African American movement, and the KGB's whistleblower.

When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed
Mikhail Khodorkovsky on his arrest in Russia, Nigerian oil and Desmond Tutu.

When Belgium Banned Coca Cola
A strange illness strikes Belgian teenagers, Brazil's Amazon war, and the 1973 oil crisis

The Nazi Black Book
The Nazi arrest list for Britain, wartime Austria, and anti-traveller riots in Sweden

The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
The fighting in Sao Paulo in 1968 that drove Brazil deeper into military dictatorship.

The Arnhem Parachute Drop
Operation Market Garden, Brazil's nuclear accident, the Battle of Algiers and Cuban spies

How I Survived a Fire on a Plane
A lucky escape from a jet plane fire in the 1970s and the killing of Steve Biko.

Living under Gaddafi
How Gaddafi changed Libya, the battle for Brick Lane in 70s London, the first MRI scanner

Surviving the "Death Railway"
A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2; Hitler's girl guides and the Lake Nyos disaster

Albert Speer - Hitler's Architect
Interviewing a senior Nazi; the Soviet fight against alcohol; German hostage drama.