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Back to SearchPhotographing Brazil's Yanomami
In 1971 photographer Claudia Andujar began documenting the lives of a remote indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Her photographs helped …
4 years, 3 months ago
Kenya: Westgate mall attack
Eyewitnesses remember the Westgate mall attack in Kenya, the 1990s 'miracle water' craze in Mexico, and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. Plus t…
4 years, 3 months ago
The earthquake that devastated Haiti
In 2010 the Haitian capital and surrounding areas were hit by a catastrophic earthquake. Much of Port Au Prince was flattened and more than a hundred…
4 years, 3 months ago
9/11 and the war on terror
In a special edition on the terrorist attacks on America, we hear from the White House official who broke the news to the President and a Muslim firs…
4 years, 4 months ago
Surviving the fall of Saigon
When South Vietnam fell in 1975, most could not escape. In the last days, the US airlifted its remaining personnel and some high ranking Vietnamese o…
4 years, 4 months ago
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
Fang Lang was one of six Chinese men who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The six faced racism and a hostile immigration system when they…
4 years, 4 months ago
US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon
The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, also the 1940s Indian radio station calling for independence…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Berlin Wall
In August 1961, communist East Germany began building the Berlin Wall, which divided the city for nearly three decades and became a symbol of the Col…
4 years, 4 months ago
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
The story of the famed 1970s Indian conservation movement. Plus we speak to Professor Vinita Damodaran about the history of Indian environmentalism. …
4 years, 5 months ago
Darfur's ethnic war
We hear about the start of the war in Darfur, through the eyes of a teenage boy whose life was changed when the Sudanese military allied to a local m…
4 years, 5 months ago