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Back to SearchTheatre siege in Moscow
It is 20 years since heavily-armed Chechen rebels took an entire theatre full of people hostage.
They threatened to kill them all if the Russian gove…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Iranian Revolution and women
Many women supported Iran’s 1979 revolution against the monarchy but some later became disillusioned.
Islamic rules about how women dressed were just…
3 years, 8 months ago
Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand
In 1998 President Suharto of Indonesia resigned after more than thirty years of military rule. It meant people from indigenous communities were final…
3 years, 8 months ago
Founder of the Cuban National Ballet
We go back to 1959 when Cuba’s most famous ballet dancer Alicia Alonso turned her back on a successful career on the world stage and returned home to…
3 years, 8 months ago
Cuba's boxing ban
Earlier this year, Cuba lifted a 60-year ban on professional boxing, which Fidel Castro imposed in 1962.
Before then, amateur boxers who wanted to tu…
3 years, 8 months ago
The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write
In 1961, Fidel Castro launched a nationwide campaign aimed to eradicate illiteracy in Cuba.
An ‘army’ of volunteers known as brigadistas equipped wi…
3 years, 8 months ago
Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
Jo Fidgen hears what was happening in the Pentagon and the Kremlin in the final days of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Soviet leader Nikita Khrus…
3 years, 8 months ago
Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Jo Fidgen spoke to American Intelligence officer Dino Brugioni who …
3 years, 8 months ago
Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
In the 1960s, a wave of strikes and protest marches by Mexican-American farm workers inspired Latinos across the US.
The movement was led by Cesar Ch…
3 years, 8 months ago
Torturing strikers in South Korea
Park Heongjun takes us back to May 1980, when a strike in the city of Gwangju became one of the most divisive moments in South Korea’s history and le…
3 years, 8 months ago