Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhen Tunisia led on women's rights
Liberation for Tunisia's women in the 1950s; gay and lesbian fake marriages in China; the Chappaquiddick incident in the US; the birth of Mamma Mia! …
6 years, 5 months ago
Exploring space
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing in July 1969, five personal accounts of landmarks in space exploration. We hear from an Apollo fligh…
6 years, 5 months ago
Kenya's ivory inferno
Twelve tonnes of ivory was set alight by President Daniel Arap Moi in Nairobi National Park in July 1989, to highlight the threat from poaching. The …
6 years, 5 months ago
Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'
Life under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, the Germans kidnapped by the Contras in Nicaragua in the 80s, plus how Aboriginal women took on the Australi…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Stonewall riot
The riot that inspired the modern gay rights movement; Saddam Hussein's 1980s genocidal campaign against Iraq's Kurds; notorious British serial kille…
6 years, 6 months ago
The assassination of Medgar Evers
An African-American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star, the tragic icon of Iran's reform movement and archive recordings of the psychoanalyst C…
6 years, 6 months ago
The first anti-psychotic drug
How a 1950s drug helped revolutionise the treatment of mental illness. Also, how hundreds of thousands of Kosovans fled when NATO bombed former Yugos…
6 years, 6 months ago
D-Day
Eyewitness accounts of the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied Europe on D-day, 6th June 1944. We also hear how the BBC reported events on that momentou…
6 years, 7 months ago
Tiananmen Square
A student protester's perspective on the Tiananmen Square massacre, the first social network on the internet, the surprisingly controversial early ye…
6 years, 7 months ago
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
In 2009 Ugandan MPs tried to introduce new laws against homosexuality that would include life imprisonment and even the death penalty. We speak to Vi…
6 years, 7 months ago