Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKenya'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 …
7 years, 2 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…
7 years, 2 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…
7 years, 3 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…
7 years, 3 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…
7 years, 3 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…
7 years, 3 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…
7 years, 4 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…
7 years, 4 months ago
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
In May 2009 the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil Tigers, ending a brutal 25-year civil war; also, the economists who predicted the 2008 global econ…
7 years, 4 months ago
The war on drugs
US President Richard Nixon's efforts to deal with illegal drugs in 1971, the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam plus the rise of Jack Ma and h…
7 years, 4 months ago