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The History Hour Episodes

  1. Escape from the KGB

    Cold War spies and women's baseball, plus Hong Kong handover and Mandela's birthday bash

  2. Iran Student Protests

    Unrest in Iran, French resistance leader Jean Moulin and rockers protest against disco

  3. Students Set on Fire

    The students set on fire in Chile; the Battle of Gettysburg; and penguins in an oil spill.

  4. Cigarettes and Cancer

    The link between smoking and cancer, JFK in Ireland and pacifist Britten's War Requiem

  5. The First Woman in Space

    Russia puts a woman in orbit, America executes spy couple and the Rocky Horror Show opens.

  6. The Pentagon Papers

    The 1971 leak of Vietnam war secrets; Nigeria's president who never was; and much more

  7. The Oklahoma Bomber

    Inside the mind of Timothy McVeigh, plus Stalin's gulag, and a royal massacre in Nepal.

  8. The Ascent of Everest

    The first men on Everest's summit; Riotous ballet; The New Deal, the Queen's coronation

  9. Africa United

    Fifty years of the African Union, the murder of Aldo Moro, plus surviving a nuclear attack

  10. The Dambusters

    70 years ago British bombers hit hydroelectric dams in Germany, plus a coup in Ethiopia.

  11. The Bombing of Cambodia

    The secret US bombing campaign of Cambodia, the Arctic Convoys of WW2 and Pavarotti

  12. The last days of Adolf Hitler

    We hear from someone who was with him at the end, plus US Civil Rights, and Germany 1968

  13. Muhammad Ali and the draft

    How the boxer refused to fight in Vietnam, plus a coup in Panama and Selassie in Jamaica.

  14. The Khmer Rouge enter Phnom Penh

    A survivor of the return to Year Zero in Cambodia, plus a WWI flyer, and 70 years of LSD.

  15. The Death of Margaret Thatcher

    In the week that Britain's former prime minister died, some very personal memories.

  16. James Brown's 1968 Concert

    Keeping the Boston streets quiet after the assassination of Martin Luther King

  17. The 2014 annexation of Crimea

    How Russia seized Crimea in 2014; the death of Trayvon Martin; Nigeria's film industry.

  18. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  19. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  20. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  21. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  22. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  23. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  24. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  25. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  26. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  27. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  28. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  29. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  30. COMING UP

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

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