Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Zimbabwe Massacres
In this week's episode, Robert Mugabe's brutal crack down on the opposition in the 1980s, a mass expulsion of Soviet spies from Britain in the 1970's…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Good Friday Agreement
In 1998, the political parties in Northern Ireland reached a peace agreement that ended decades of war. We hear from Paul Murphy, the junior minister…
8 years, 6 months ago
The Battle of the Airwaves in Latin America
Why the BBC started broadcasting to South and Central America, plus the My Lai Massacre, Brazil's careful transition to democracy, and Moscow's show …
8 years, 6 months ago
Deaf Rights Protest
A landmark protest by deaf students in the US; the early fight for women's reproductive rights; the life and times of political thinker, Hannah Arend…
8 years, 6 months ago
China's Barefoot Doctors
How China's barefoot doctor scheme revolutionised rural healthcare; plus M*A*S*H, the ground-breaking American TV show that taught a generation about…
8 years, 6 months ago
The Boy in the Bubble
How a young boy lived with a rare genetic disorder; plus "Ghana Must Go" - when 1 million Africans were expelled from Nigeria, battling the last majo…
8 years, 7 months ago
Women's Rights In Iran
We hear from Mahnaz Afkhami, Iran's first ever minister for Women's Affairs, appointed in 1975. Plus, the so-called "headscarf revolutionaries" who f…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Munich Air Disaster
The plane crash that killed eight of Manchester United's top players, the courage of the British Suffragettes, uncovering South Africa's nuclear secr…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Tet Offensive
In January 1968, North Vietnamese troops and Viet Cong guerrillas launched a huge surprise attack on towns, cities and military bases across South Vi…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Capture of the USS Pueblo
When North Korea and the US came close to war in 1968; plus Salvador Dali, re-creating Francis Bacon's studio, the first veggie burger and the origi…
8 years, 8 months ago