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Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter

On this week's programme, how pioneering American woman war reporter, Dickey Chapelle, was killed in Vietnam; plus two very different perspectives on…

9 years, 10 months ago

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Shell Shock

World War One veterans describe Shell Shock and Prof. Edgar Jones of Kings College on the psychiatric cost of war; plus Hungary's 1956 uprising, how …

9 years, 11 months ago

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The Mayak Nuclear Disaster

One of the world's worst nuclear disasters, the most notorious prison riot in America, Second World War internment in Australia, resistance in aparth…

9 years, 11 months ago

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The University of Texas Shooting

On 1 August 1966, student Charles Whitman shot dead 14 people and injured another 32 in America's first mass shooting at a university. Plus, the olde…

10 years, 1 month ago

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First CIA coup in Latin America

In this week's programme, we hear personal accounts of two fronts in America's Cold War fight against communism: Guatemala and Russia itself. Plus, t…

10 years, 1 month ago

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Tanzania's Ujamaa

Socialism in Tanzania, the man who assassinated the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, the crash of the Soviet supersonic jet Concordski, 20 years t…

10 years, 3 months ago

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The 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…

10 years, 4 months ago

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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 …

10 years, 4 months ago

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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, 6 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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