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Back to SearchPrincess Diana's Minefield Walk
In 1997, the Princess of Wales made a high-profile visit to a landmine clearance programme in Angola. Her trip is credited with boosting the campaign…
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American Communists
The early American Communists, a North Vietnamese tunneler who helped outsmart the Americans and win the war in Vietnam, plus the pyramid scheme fail…
9 years, 8 months ago
The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two of the key signatories of the dissolut…
9 years, 8 months ago
Death of an Anarchist
The controversial death in police custody of Italian anarchist, Giuseppe Pinelli, the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett how Greece and Tur…
9 years, 9 months ago
Yoyes, ETA's female icon
The life and untimely death of a Basque separatist fighter, resisting the Nazis in Lithuania, a medical breakthrough that prevented babies from dying…
9 years, 9 months ago
100 Women History Hour
A special edition of the programme remembering some of the women that history has overlooked. From women warriors to women scientists. From rural wom…
9 years, 9 months ago
Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt
The shooting of Bob Marley in 1976, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, how Ralph Nader made Americans safer, discovering Colombia's ancient Lost …
9 years, 9 months ago
The 1948 French Miners' Strike
This week, the French Miners' strike of 1948, 50 years since the launch of the Cabaret musical, the Silk Letters Movement of British India, the plane…
9 years, 10 months ago
The Dili Massacre
It is 25 years since Indonesian troops attacked protestors in the East Timorese capital, plus the impact of The Satanic Verses on British society, sm…
9 years, 10 months ago
The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial
A mass child sex abuse trial on a remote island in the Pacific that shocked the world, a controversial Kurdish song, the birth of Rolling Stone magaz…
9 years, 10 months ago