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Back to SearchThe Arnhem Parachute Drop
Operation Market Garden - the failed attempt to end the war against Hitler; plus, a deadly nuclear accident in Brazil, the film of the Battle of Algi…
8 years ago
How I Survived a Fire on a Plane
A lucky escape from a jet plane fire in the 1970s, Chamberlain's talks with Hitler in 1938 plus the killing of the South African anti-apartheid campa…
8 years ago
Living under Gaddafi
Award-winning writer Hisham Matar on life in Gaddafi's Libya, plus how British Bengalis faced the far-right in 1970s east London, the last battles of…
8 years ago
Surviving the "Death Railway"
A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2, plus Hitler's girl guides, how Benidorm became a tourist hotspot, Italian migrant tragedy in post-war Belgi…
8 years, 1 month ago
Albert Speer - Hitler's Architect
Hitler's architect and minister of war, Albert Speer, was one of the few top Nazis to live on into old age. In the late 1970s, following his release …
8 years, 1 month ago
Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner
Baroness Shirley Williams recalls her mother, WW2 anti-bombing protestor; 20 years since a mass killing in Omagh, the African-American photographer w…
8 years, 1 month ago
WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors
The treatment of Britain's First World War conscientious objectors, Iran bends the nuclear rules, the CIA's first coup in Latin America, what happene…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History
The true history of the Great Zimbabwe ruins uncovered after independence, why Churchill lost the post-war election also the first women at the US mi…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Killing of the Russian Tsar
The murder of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, four daughters and young son in 1918, plus how the Soviet Union struggled to feed its people…
8 years, 2 months ago
Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test
The scientist at the forefront of India's first successful nuclear test in 1974, plus how an undersea mission finally found the remains of nearly 300…
8 years, 2 months ago