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Back to SearchThe Thalidomide Trial
Executives of the German company that made the drug Thalodomide go on trial. Plus, Chechen rebels negotiate peace with President Yeltsin; the Israeli…
9 years, 10 months ago
Remembering Chernobyl
Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear disaster; the funeral of Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution changed the world; plus, the impact of being …
9 years, 10 months ago
The Original Revolutionary Feminist
Russia's revolutionary feminist, British women after the First World War, poisoning in the Balkans, a miscarriage of justice in Britain, and the worl…
10 years ago
The Battle of Verdun
The World War One battle that traumatised France; the Austrian mountaineer who wrote Seven Years in Tibet; how Christian Dior revolutionised fashion …
10 years, 1 month ago
Prozac
The birth of the Prozac generation, the battle to save Afghanistan's ancient artworks and death and violence in the Spanish embassy in Guatemala. Plu…
10 years, 1 month ago
The Challenger Disaster
The launch of space shuttle Challenger goes horribly wrong, Rupert Murdoch goes to war with his print unions, Australia's 18th century penal colonies…
10 years, 1 month ago
Michael Jackson's Thriller
The 1982 release of the world's best selling album; plus the untimely death of General George S Patton; the former child star Karolyn Grimes on the f…
10 years, 2 months ago
The Battle of Tora Bora
The hunt for Bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan; a Ku Klux Klan trial in 1965; the siege of Kut in World War 1; an unexpected alliance in 1980…
10 years, 3 months ago
The Amman Bombings
Suicide bombings in Amman; a massacre in East Timor that was a turning point on the road to independence; the fall of the Taliban; anti-Sikh riots in…
10 years, 4 months ago
The Death of Rock Hudson
Angie Dickinson remembers her friend, the Hollywood superstar who became the most high profile celebrity to acknowledge he was suffering from Aids; p…
10 years, 5 months ago