Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDisability History special
We look back at the fight for disability rights in the UK and India in the 1990s, plus the remarkable life of Helen Keller as told by her great niec…
5 years, 10 months ago
The world's first woman premier
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected prime minster of Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was known then, in 1960 following the assassination of her husband, Sol…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Guerrilla Girls
In 1985 a group of anonymous female artists in New York began dressing up with gorilla masks on their heads and putting up fly-posters around the cit…
5 years, 10 months ago
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
In 1995, the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was murdered at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. We hear how his death scuppered hopes of peace in the …
5 years, 10 months ago
US presidential history special
Eyewitness accounts of moments in US presidential history: Inside JFK's election victory, remembering Shirley Chisholm - the first African American f…
5 years, 11 months ago
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
In the grips of a drug crisis, why Portugal took a radical approach in 2001 and became the first country in the world to decriminalise all drugs. Als…
5 years, 11 months ago
CNN and the 24-hour news revolution
In June 1980, US media mogul Ted Turner launched the first TV station dedicated to 24 hour news, Cable News Network or CNN. We get a first-hand accou…
5 years, 11 months ago
British black history special
We present five eyewitness accounts of moments in British black history. Including the late Sam King remembering the voyage of the Empire Windrush, p…
5 years, 11 months ago
The Mafia and Italian politics
The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia, the death of the charismatic Egyptian President - Gamal Abdel Nasser, a whale rescue…
6 years ago
Blackwater killed my son
An Iraqi father remembers the day in September 2007 when US private security guards opened fire on civilians in central Baghdad killing 17 people, in…
6 years ago