Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChina's breakthrough malaria cure
How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria; the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War that inspire…
7 years ago
I was abused by a President
How allegations of child abuse engulfed Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, the campaign to return the Elgin marbles to Greece, Britain's first black…
7 years ago
Venezuela's oil bonanza
When Venezuela was rich; surviving a mid-air airline disaster; Japan's Red Army militants of the 1970s, the origin of the swine flu epidemic and Icel…
7 years ago
The curse of Agent Orange
Millions left dead or deformed because of chemicals used in the Vietnam war, UK cigarette smoking warnings ignored, remains of the Nazi 'Angel of Dea…
7 years, 1 month ago
Iceland jails its bankers
Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 financial crisis, how the Maastricht Treaty gave birth to the EU, plus America's first female airline pi…
7 years, 1 month ago
The last days of Hitler
Hitler's secretary on the last days in the bunker; a CIA operative on the killing of Che Guevara, remembering the US invasion of Iraq, a child of the…
7 years, 1 month ago
The Iranian Revolution
In February 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to Iran in the defining moment of a revolution that would change his country and the whole M…
7 years, 1 month ago
Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church
In January 1959 Pope John XXIII announced a council of all the world's Catholic bishops and cardinals in Rome. It led to sweeping reforms. Plus Carme…
7 years, 2 months ago
Strikers in Saris
How South Asian women led thousands of UK workers in an industrial dispute in the late 1970s, plus Dr Crippen's alleged gruesome crime, Judy Garland'…
7 years, 2 months ago
When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors
Stalin's last terror campaign against the best Soviet doctors, Castro's triumphant entry into Havana, the extraordinary story of how a destitute sing…
7 years, 2 months ago