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Back to SearchThe Poisoning of Litvinenko
In November 2006, the world was shocked by the murder in London of former Russian intelligence officer, Alexander Litvinenko. We hear from his widow …
8 years, 1 month ago
The Siege of Mecca
The secret battle for the holiest site in Islam in 1979; the coup that changed the Vietnam war, plus an East German musical icon, prosecuting Charle…
8 years, 1 month ago
The 'Disappeared' of Lebanon
The women searching for their loved-ones who went missing during the Lebanese civil war, plus the man who first discovered diamonds in Botswana, a pi…
8 years, 1 month ago
The Russian Revolution: The Bolsheviks Take Control
Eye-witness accounts from the Russian Revolution of October 1917; the first dog in space; Sabah, one of the biggest 20th-century stars of the Middle…
8 years, 2 months ago
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
The German monk who began a religious uprising; the book that made us think of humans as animals; how the murder of a Brazilian journalist by the sec…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives
How tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews escaped the Nazis by using false papers; what happened when abortion became illegal overnight in 1960s Romani…
8 years, 2 months ago
The 43 Group: Battling British Fascists
How Jewish veterans fought fascism in post war Britain; plus investigating the death of Mozambique's president Samora Machel, we hear from a survivor…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Death of Che Guevara
In October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was captured and killed in Bolivia - we hear from the CIA operative who was one of the last peo…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Hate Crime That Changed American Law
Why the brutal killing of a young gay man in Wyoming prompted change, how white people came to terms with their past after segregation in deep south …
8 years, 3 months ago
Walking the Great Wall of China
Walking the Great Wall of China; the death of Pope John Paul 1 after just a month in the job; turning against a colonial power - how Guinea gained in…
8 years, 3 months ago