Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchQuarantined in a TB sanatorium
Extreme lockdown half a century ago: the TB children forced to endure years of isolation in a sanatorium; the unveiling of looted Nazi art works, the…
6 years, 3 months ago
Dealing with economic crisis
As the world begins to consider how to emerge from the Coronavirus pandemic, we look back at economic crises of the past and how countries have respo…
6 years, 3 months ago
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
How whistle-blowers implicated UN peacekeepers and international police in the forced prostitution and trafficking of Eastern European women into Bos…
6 years, 3 months ago
Black American History Special
Eyewitness accounts of important moments in recent African American history. We hear from the daughter of the man named in the court case which becam…
6 years, 3 months ago
The Zanzibar revolution
How a bloody 1960s revolution changed East Africa. We hear an eyewitness account and talk to Professor Emma Hunter of Edinburgh University. Plus the …
6 years, 3 months ago
The Gwangju massacre
Forty years on from the Gwangju uprising in South Korea, the book that changed the way we eat, plus the dangers of being a Congolese conservationist.…
6 years, 4 months ago
Britain's World War Two crime wave
During times of crisis in the UK, World War Two is often remembered as a period when the country rallied together to fight a common enemy. But as Sim…
6 years, 4 months ago
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Why Japanese women had to wait until 1999 to be allowed to take the pill, the Dutch 'Prince of scandal', plus the flatulent fish that prompted a Cold…
6 years, 4 months ago
VE Day Special
Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War in Europe. Using unique interviews from the BBC's archives we bri…
6 years, 4 months ago
The 1957 flu pandemic
A new strain of flu emerged in East Asia in 1957 and spread all over the world. Known at the time as “Asian flu”, it killed more than a million peopl…
6 years, 5 months ago