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The History Hour — 514 episodes
The mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry and surviving 9/11
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial and the creator of Star Wars toys
Voting for water and surviving a hurricane
The battle of Mandalay and the New World screwworm
The Mau Mau uprising and man-eating lions
Taiwan's White Terror and the making of City of God
The first Comic Con and making Oasis’ Wonderwall
Solar-powered flight and the Crazy Horse Memorial
The Spanish Civil War and the Birkin bag
Buildings of power and the Dada art movement
The return of Chief Long Wolf and The Statue of Liberty's facelift
The Slip Slop Slap campaign and the Brexit referendum
An uprising in South Africa and an exodus in the Caucasus
Opening the archives: A cellist, a playwright and a king
The creation of Inspector Montalbano and Australia's first Big Thing
Mexican history: A love song and a gas explosion
Belgium’s royal affair and Montenegro gains independence
The first reality game show and a joik performance on Eurovision
Sir David Attenborough's first Zoo Quest and a WW2 sabotage mission in Norway
The world’s first perfume archive and Dutch car-free Sundays in the global oil crisis
Cleaning up Chernobyl and Canada’s war in the woods
Winning the Booker Prize and discovering a lost fairytale
Hitler’s teeth and the Leaning Tower of Pisa
The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant
A papal visit and German reunification
The 'Cyprus Emergency’ and India’s nuclear mango deal
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca
Sweden and the USA's diplomatic freeze and Elvis in the UK
Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III
The Shetland Bus and toxic shock syndrome
Italian history
Creating Mr Men and the Austrian wine scandal
Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy
The priest behind a new airport and Agatha Christie
The birth of the modern fitted kitchen and the creation of Cluedo
The House of the Spirits and Tracey Emin's unmade bed
The American Freedom Train and the invention of text messaging
The history of toys
Norway’s sushi contribution and Laurel and Hardy’s Christmas
Banky's 'Dismaland' and the Paris climate agreement
Nigerian history
Literary hoaxes and an underground cathedral
Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain and ending the Bosnian war
Speed of Sound and prosecuting Nazis
The largest dinosaur and creating Miffy
Emerante de Pradines and Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds
Music producer Sonny Roberts and treating diabetes
Nordic Noir and the Moomins
The evacuation of Tristan da Cunha and Japan surrenders to China at the end of World War Two
India's nine day tea strike and the birth of the Excel spreadsheet
The origins of Indian cinema and the start of Scouting
The fight against sexual harassment in Egypt and Omar Sharif enters the world stage
Nigeria’s Festac’77 and Gander’s generosity during 9/11
The Chindits and USAID
Washington DC and a film noir classic
BlackBerry phones and Spot the dog
Indonesian history
Nagasaki bomb and Brazil’s biggest bank heist
Russian revolutionaries and Japan’s record breaking rollercoaster
Saxophone diplomacy and bulletproof vests
Nuclear diplomacy and Italo disco
The 'trial of the juntas' and Evita’s missing body
Dancing in the Street and Ai Weiwei
Robert Kennedy's funeral train and the opening of the Medellin Metro
Jaws and the Charleston church shooting
Ronald Reagan and Lonesome George
Discovery of the first exoplanets and the goalie who killed a seagull
Battle of the Beanfield and the Champions League anthem
The history of photography
Sweden’s Vipeholm experiments and the Intervision Song Contest
Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures and 80 years since VE Day
The Vietnam War and the expansion of the EU
Secret D-Day rehearsal and YouTube begins
The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and World Book Day
Bonus: Defeated
Nazis and sex strikes
The wonder woman of the comic world and Namibia's 'ghost town'
The phone call that changed Nigeria and a 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
The history of space travel
The Americans with Disabilities Act and the invention of GPS
The invention of the shopping trolley and the Calais 'Jungle'
Discovering the haemoglobin structure and the Nellie massacre
Death of a language and the world’s longest kiss
Great speeches from around the world
Cult films and a 'rockstar' philosopher
The 'Wolf Children' of World War Two and China's TV lessons
Back to 1995
World War Two on film and Africa's landmark lifestyle magazine
The Charlie Hebdo attack and the art of decluttering
The Boxing Day tsunami, and Alexa’s creation
German traditions and cooking for presidents
Referendums and cannibalism
Panama and the 'Purple Heart Battalion'
Women making a mark
'Mozart of chess’ and the deepest man-made hole in the world
The Siege of Yarmouk and Iran's 'house churches'
The ‘Battle of the Surfaces’ and becoming a republic
Female heroes of WW2 and the Iranian Revolution
Magic, illusion and tigers
Dungeons & Dragons and dinosaur remains
Flower revolutions
Technology and artificial intelligence
Latin America's longest plane hijacking and Kristallnacht
South Africa’s Immorality Act and India's Mars Orbiter Mission
New Zealand’s first dinosaur and India’s plague outbreak
Ethiopian history
Marriage bars and a Moon mission
Space travel and Mary Poppins
Nazis in Egypt and Spain's La Tomatina
Indonesian’s independence and the last Olympic art competition
American presidents
Ice Bucket Challenge and Bulgaria's dancing bears
Moscow Metro and the Olympics
Cyprus: Coups and clubbing
Brazil's ban on women in football and the first air fryer
Subway Art and terror in Georgia
The Sagrada Família and Hello Kitty
Bungee jumping and the Benidorm boom
Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria and the Irish shopworkers strike
The weather report that delayed D-Day and panda-mania in Taiwan
South American revolutionaries and the first Aboriginal MP
The first Air Jordan and Imelda Marcos's 3,000 pairs of shoes
Independence in French Polynesia and the 'Queen of Cuba'
India’s ambitious ID scheme and the iconic Princess Diana photo
Paraguay’s ‘disappeared’ and the history of the Channel Tunnel
Thirty years since the first free elections in South Africa
Ebola outbreak and the Friendship Train returns
The history of art heists
Swedish History
Seventy-five years of Nato and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
Chinese history
Finding early vertebrate’s footprints and the Deaflympic badminton champion
Uruguay's smoking ban and the Carnation Revolution
Whisky wars and the Lord of Sipan
Skiing and two-headed dogs
Letters to Juliet and Saint Valentine’s traditions
Inspirational black women
Internet cafes and Doomsday seeds
Traitors and treachery
Lady Tarzan and Ibadan Zoo
The first lesbian couple to get married and World Laughter Day
Hindenburg disaster and wingsuits
Pad Thai, kiwis and the chef Ken Hom
Tsunamis and Caster Semenya
Mandela's funeral and Tsar's reburial
Doom and Danish brains
Saving animals from extinction and Cabbage Patch Kids
Zambia celebrates independence and the invention of bubble tea
The Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland and EpiPen invention
Pakistani popstars, and the hippo and the tortoise
Che Guevara's daughter and marrying Freddie Mercury
Gezi Park protests and MAD hijack
Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week
The creation of Ghana's flag and the oldest person at primary school
Marking 50 years since the 1973 global oil crisis
The Lampedusa disaster and cat cafes
Nazi eugenics and the year of the vuvuzela
Israeli and Palestinian history
The Chilean coup and Zanzibar’s most famous singer
Historic Korean summit and goat island
Ireland's 'ghost estates' and the first Rose of Tralee
Judy Garland's legacy and the Benin Bronzes
Presidential diamonds and Tupperware parties
Dinosaur discoveries and a Berlin Wall treehouse
West African food and computer viruses
Wartime surrenders and the birth of Barbie
Five great inventions that changed the world
Tourism arrives in the Maldives and a royal night out
South Korea store collapse and Lady Gaga's meat dress
Somalia's civil war and golf on the moon
Amazing photographs and the people who took them
Inuit children taken from families and Le Mans crash
Scaling Everest, the highest mountain in the world
Bosnian concentration camp photo and hero clown
Singapore executes Filipina maid and German child evacuees of World War Two
World War Two African victory and 'Kai Tak heart attack'
The 'Stone of Destiny' and a self-proclaimed Emperor
Artist Althea McNish and history of the Met Gala
The history of dogs
Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing
EEscaping Eritrea and inventing Zumba
The godfather of manicures and India's Silicon Valley
Film and cinema around the world
The Invasion of Iraq
International Women's Day
Pink triangles and political assassinations
Riots in Mauritius and the Queen 'jumping out of a helicopter'
'Hot Autumn' and Tutankhamun
Popes
Pirate radio and the Velvet Divorce
The death penalty and broadcasting bans
Horsemeat scandal and the Miracle on the Hudson
Plastics in oceans and sea cucumbers
Pussy Riot and other Russian rebels
Food
90 years of the BBC World Service
District Six and daredevils
Referendums and Teletubbies
Contested islands and Miss World protests
Anwar Ibrahim and road safety inventions
Arabian Peninsula
Racist raids, protests and a political assassination
The best Championship Manager player ever
Women taking a stand
Cuban boxing and the brink of nuclear war
Global strikes and industrial action
Caribbean carnivals and a racially inclusive nightclub
EDassler brothers' rift
Queen Elizabeth II and broadcasting
Queen Elizabeth II
Brazil
Gorbachev's legacy
Inflation and the cost of living
Seventy-five years since India's Partition
The nightclub that changed Ibiza
Fifty years since Asians were kicked out of Uganda
EThe Revolution on Granite
Stories from iconic TV shows from around the world
Stories from the abortion fight frontline
America’s first gay election candidate
Hong Kong: 25 years since the handover from British to Chinese rule
Egypt's first democratic Presidential election
Cambodian genocide trials
How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
The Syrian civil war
Artists who made history
The Marcos regime in the Philippines
The war in Transnistria
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Algeria's War of Independence
The Falkands War
Protesting against Putin
Ukrainian history special
Women who made history
Russia under Putin
LGBT history special
The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Kazakhstan's new capital
Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
The rise of Boko Haram
Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
A history of games
The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
The birth of Bangladesh
Four decades of HIV/Aids
The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Sudan's October Revolution
The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
When Eritrea silenced its critics
The child environmental activist of the 1990s
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
Black history: Britain and race
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Kenya: Westgate mall attack
The earthquake that devastated Haiti
9/11 and the war on terror
Surviving the fall of Saigon
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon
The Berlin Wall
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
Darfur's ethnic war
When the Taliban ruled Kabul
North Korea's 1990s famine
Supernatural sightings
The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
The war on drugs
Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend
When Egypt said Enough
Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
The IRA hunger strikes
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
The first woman in the US Supreme Court
The women who reclaimed the night
Black Jesus
The History Hour
The History Hour
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
The Iron Curtain
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Black History: The Black Panthers
US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter
The Burma protests of 1988
The Arab Spring of 2011
Hitler's beer hall putsch
Attack at the US Capitol
Buddhist on Death Row
75 years of Unesco
Film special
The birth of Bangladesh
The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
The fall of Addis Ababa
Disability History special
The world's first woman premier
The Guerrilla Girls
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
US presidential history special
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
CNN and the 24-hour news revolution
British black history special
The Mafia and Italian politics
Blackwater killed my son
Stories of resistance and protest from around the world
Prohibition in India
Inventing James Bond
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
The siege at Ruby Ridge
Beirut's hotel war
The Second World War in Japan
Adrift for 76 Days
The Million Man March
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Dealing with economic crisis
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Black American History Special
The Zanzibar revolution
The Gwangju massacre
Britain's World War Two crime wave
Fighting for the pill in Japan
VE Day Special
The 1957 flu pandemic
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world
How technology revolutionised our lives
Women in the law
The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
The 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic
The history of the Volkswagen Beetle
Freeing American prisoners from Iran
Saving Antarctica
The publication of Harry Potter
London's first black policeman
The early days of the European Union
The mystery of the disappearing frogs
Storming the Stasi HQ
The Computers for Schools revolution
The book that warned of an end to civilisation
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Romanian revolution
The Cuban writer who defied Castro
The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking
I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean
Britain's secret propaganda war
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
The fall of the Berlin Wall
An environmental history special
Black British history
The birth of the People's Republic of China
Fighting the Islamic State group online
The Cambridge spy network
Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
The outbreak of World War Two
The Kindertransport children
The return of the wolf
The division of Kashmir
The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
The anti-nuclear protesters who won
When Tunisia led on women's rights
Exploring space
Kenya's ivory inferno
Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'
The Stonewall riot
The assassination of Medgar Evers
The first anti-psychotic drug
D-Day
Tiananmen Square
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
The war on drugs
The Malayan Emergency
The al Yamamah arms deals
The Columbine school shooting
The rise of Hindu nationalism
Abolishing the army
Drama in the British parliament
Autism and the MMR vaccine
China's breakthrough malaria cure
I was abused by a President
Venezuela's oil bonanza
The curse of Agent Orange
Iceland jails its bankers
The last days of Hitler
The Iranian Revolution
Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church
Strikers in Saris
When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors
Vikings in North America
UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'
Apollo 8
Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family
The Man Who Inspired Britain's First Aids Charity
The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers
Japanese Murders in Brazil
The End of World War One
When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed
The Nazi Black Book
When Belgium Banned Coca Cola
The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
The Arnhem Parachute Drop
How I Survived a Fire on a Plane
Living under Gaddafi
Surviving the "Death Railway"
Albert Speer - Hitler's Architect
Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner
WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors
The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History
The Killing of the Russian Tsar
Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test
When The US Shot Down An Iranian Airliner
The Ex-President and the Gun Lobby
Korea Divided: A Bitter History
The 1968 Belgrade Student Revolt
Free Health Care for All
The Fall of Suharto in Indonesia
May 1968 Paris Riots
The Last King of Bulgaria
When Margaret Thatcher Came to Power
The Oslo Peace Talks
Earth Day
The Zimbabwe Massacres
EThe Good Friday Agreement
The Battle of the Airwaves in Latin America
Deaf Rights Protest
China's Barefoot Doctors
The Boy in the Bubble
Women's Rights In Iran
The Munich Air Disaster
The Tet Offensive
The Capture of the USS Pueblo
Truth And Reconciliation in South Africa
When France Said 'Non' to Britain Joining Europe
Boris Yeltsin's Surprise Resignation
Kwanzaa - The African-American Holiday
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Unsung Hero of Heart Surgery
British Withdrawal from South Yemen
The Poisoning of Litvinenko
The Siege of Mecca
The 'Disappeared' of Lebanon
The Russian Revolution: The Bolsheviks Take Control
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives
The 43 Group: Battling British Fascists
The Death of Che Guevara
The Hate Crime That Changed American Law
Walking the Great Wall of China
When Animals Make History
The Collapse of Northern Rock
The Fairy Photos
The Death of Princess Diana
Medicine in World War One
Nike and the Sweatshop Problem
Reagan's Bombing Joke
When Homosexuality Was a Crime
Psychological Warfare
The Oka Crisis
The Roswell Incident
The History of Modern Tourism
Italy's Secret "State-within-a-State"
The Woman Who Stopped Equal Rights in America
The Six Day War 1967
Operation Lifeline: Canada's Refugee Revolution
Brown v The Board of Education
The Trial of Maurice Papon
The Invention of Liposuction
Searching For Argentina's Disappeared
Charlie Chaplin Returns to America from Exile
The Takeover of Russia's NTV
How Princess Diana changed the perception of AIDS
The Flavr Savr Tomato - The World's First Genetically Engineered Food
The First Russian Revolution of 1917
Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote
Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint
The German American Bund
Love and Marriage
Sanctuary Cities in the USA
The End of Apartheid
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Roots - The TV Series
Princess Diana's Minefield Walk
American Communists
The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
Death of an Anarchist
Yoyes, ETA's female icon
100 Women History Hour
Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt
The 1948 French Miners' Strike
The Dili Massacre
The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial
Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter
Shell Shock
The Mayak Nuclear Disaster
The University of Texas Shooting
First CIA coup in Latin America
Tanzania's Ujamaa
The Thalidomide Trial
Remembering Chernobyl
The Original Revolutionary Feminist
The Battle of Verdun
Prozac
The Challenger Disaster
Michael Jackson's Thriller
The Battle of Tora Bora
The Amman Bombings
The Death of Rock Hudson
Korea Divided