Podcast Episodes

The war in Transnistria

With speculation mounting that President Putin might mount an attack on Moldova, Max Pearson hears a first-hand account of the war in the 1990s betwe…

4 years, 4 months ago

Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

Max Pearson gets a first-hand account of how the minority Uyghur community in China staged some of the first protests against the all-powerful Commun…

4 years, 4 months ago

Algeria's War of Independence

Sixty years after Algeria's independence from France, first-hand accounts of a traumatic 'birth of a nation': a female Algerian bomber who was part o…

4 years, 5 months ago

The Falkands War

On the fortieth anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, Max Pearson hears two contrasting accounts of the war with Britain. Pa…

4 years, 5 months ago

Protesting against Putin

Starting in late 2011, tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets to try to stop what they saw as a power grab by Russian leader Vladimir Pu…

4 years, 5 months ago

Ukrainian history special

To mark the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a special edition on episodes from Ukrainian history.

In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nucl…

4 years, 6 months ago

Women 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months ago