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Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service

To mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC World Service, we trace the development of the Caribbean Service.

Its beginnings go back to the early 1940s wh…

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Felix Baumgartner's huge leap

In October 2012, skydiver and former Austrian paratrooper Felix Baumgartner was watched live by millions as he ascended into the stratosphere in a he…

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Soviet fashionista

Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to create high fashion collections in the Soviet Union.

He tells Dina Newman about the challenges he faced workin…

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Returning to District Six

When Zahra Nordien was forced out of District Six in Cape Town in 1977, she vowed to one day return.

She was one of the 60,000 people who were forcib…

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The Nazi occupation of Jersey

Shopkeeper Louisa Gould risked her life to hide a Russian prisoner who had escaped from the Nazis during the German occupation of Jersey in World War…

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Mongolian revolution

In 1990, a peaceful revolution brought democracy to Mongolia after almost 70 years of Soviet backed rule.

University lecturer Ganbold Davaadorj was o…

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Creating Teletubbies

It’s 1994 and the BBC is looking for a brand-new children’s TV series.

TV producer Anne Wood decides she’s going to make a show aimed at an audience …

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'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam

In November 1975, the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, was controversially sacked by an unelected official in the country's biggest constitu…

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The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

On the 22 July 2005, unarmed Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by anti-terrorism police in London.

He was shot because he was mistak…

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Demolishing the Babri Masjid

Hindu extremists demolished a 16th century mosque in the Indian city of Ayodhya in December 1992 prompting months of communal violence across India. …

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