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EPISODE · Sep 28, 2019 · 50 MIN

Fighting the Islamic State group online

from The History Hour · host BBC World Service

When the Islamic State group took over Mosul in Iraq in 2014 they flooded the internet with propaganda, claiming life under IS was fantastic. One historian living in the city decided to post a counter-narrative online, setting up a website called "Mosul Eye". Also in this edition, one black man's experience of growing up in Hitler's Germany; the gruesome death of the famous bullfighter Paquirri, switching on the Large Hadron Collider and the birth of the Sound of Music on Broadway in 1959.(Photo: Mosul Eye website. BBC)

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