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Back to SearchWhen The US Shot Down An Iranian Airliner
How a US warship downed a passenger jet killing 290 people, plus the story behind The Toilet, the controversial 1990s Russian 'masterpiece', Madelei…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Ex-President and the Gun Lobby
This week, how former US President George Bush Senior took on the all-powerful National Rifle Association; the murder of the campaigning Irish journa…
8 years, 3 months ago
Korea Divided: A Bitter History
From the 1945 division of the peninsula, to the Korean war and the death of Kim II-sung, we have first-hand accounts from the turbulent recent histor…
8 years, 3 months ago
The 1968 Belgrade Student Revolt
The 1968 student revolt in Communist Yugoslavia, an assassination attempt that sparked Lebanon's war, Adolf Eichmann's execution, plus the sudden dea…
8 years, 3 months ago
Free Health Care for All
The birth of the British health service in 1948; the battle for compensation over Thalidomide; the world's first bicycle-sharing scheme; discovering …
8 years, 4 months ago
The Fall of Suharto in Indonesia
In 1998, the Indonesian dictator, President Suharto, resigned after 31 years in power. He stood down in the wake of nationwide demonstrations sparked…
8 years, 4 months ago
May 1968 Paris Riots
A French riot policeman's view of the violence that swept through France in May 1968; plus the man who led a team that made safe two nuclear weapons …
8 years, 4 months ago
The Last King of Bulgaria
From child king in the Second World War to post-communist prime minister, the story of Bulgaria's King Simeon II; the first ever surgery performed on…
8 years, 4 months ago
When Margaret Thatcher Came to Power
Working for Britain's first female PM, the rare story of prisoners on the high seas in WW2, plus the Children's Crusade for civil right in 60s Alabam…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Oslo Peace Talks
The story behind the secret Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Oslo in 1993, the woman who swam from the USA to the Soviet Union, plus remembering Pa…
8 years, 5 months ago