Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWomen who made history
To celebrate International Women's Day, a special edition on five women who've made their mark on history. US feminist Gloria Steinem remembers found…
4 years ago
Russia under Putin
How Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent, rose to power and transformed Russia. We hear eyewitness accounts of Putin's war in Chechnya, his campaign ag…
4 years ago
LGBT history special
In the 1990s, doctors in Berlin began a cutting-edge treatment programme that led to a patient being cured of HIV/AIDS. The so-called "Berlin patient…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Former presidents and protestors recount two key moments in the history of the Ukraine crisis - from the historic meeting that ended the USSR to the …
4 years, 1 month ago
Kazakhstan's new capital
How Kazakhstan's strongman president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, created a new capital, which would eventually be named after him; transformation in the U…
4 years, 1 month ago
Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
In one of the most controversial episodes of 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in Janu…
4 years, 2 months ago
The rise of Boko Haram
In 2009, Boko Haram, a small Islamist group, launched an insurgency in the north eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri. The conflict would eventually f…
4 years, 2 months ago
Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
The Indian independence campaigner, Subhas Chandra Bose, sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two to try to free his country from British rul…
4 years, 2 months ago
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Mozambique’s struggle to end Portuguese colonial rule and the assassination of Eduardo Mondlane, we'll hear from his daughter Nyeleti Brooke Mondlane…
4 years, 2 months ago
A history of games
The inside story of games that shaped the modern world. Including Atari's Nolan Bushnell on his game Pong which helped launch the video game industry…
4 years, 2 months ago