Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSearching For Argentina's Disappeared
In April 1977 a group of women in Argentina held the first ever public demonstration to demand the release of thousands of opponents of the military …
8 years, 10 months ago
Charlie Chaplin Returns to America from Exile
Charlie Chaplin's son on his father's political views and his rocky relationship with his one-time adopted home, America. Plus the Hubble telescope p…
8 years, 11 months ago
The Takeover of Russia's NTV
NTV was Russia's only nationwide independent TV station until it was taken over in April 2001. We hear from the head of the station at the time. Plus…
8 years, 11 months ago
How Princess Diana changed the perception of AIDS
The royal handshake that changed attitudes to AIDS, America enters WW1, plus Egypt's Facebook girl, Nagorno Karabakh and remembering Jane Fonda's wor…
8 years, 11 months ago
The Flavr Savr Tomato - The World's First Genetically Engineered Food
In 1994 the world's first genetically-engineered food went on sale in the US. It was a tomato, called the 'Flavr Savr' which stayed fresh for up to 3…
8 years, 11 months ago
The First Russian Revolution of 1917
100 years since the Russian Revolution, Imperial Russia in colour, AIDS and the mystery of 'Patient Zero', when Indian sex workers marched for employ…
9 years ago
Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote
Women in Kuwait win the right to vote, and the only women on the front line on the Western Front in World War One; battling smog in Mexico City in th…
9 years ago
Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint
Life with Mother Teresa among the poorest of the poor in Calcutta, how the World Health Organisation came to realise that obesity was a global proble…
9 years ago
The German American Bund
In the 1930s, a group of German-American Nazi sympathisers known as the German American Bund held rallies and summer camps across the US. Also, the l…
9 years, 1 month ago
Love and Marriage
From speed-dating to gay romance, from divorce to bigamy we look at recent changes in the way society perceives love and marriage. Plus - an expert v…
9 years, 1 month ago