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How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
A history of the gun lobby in the US, the Eichmann trial in 1961, the first space shuttle

The first woman in the US Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to America's top court, plus the Bay of Pigs invasion

The women who reclaimed the night
Women's night-time protest, a Mexican female serial killer and the jet stream.

Black Jesus
The pastor who argued God was black; Mrs Thatcher wows Moscow; orchid-hunters kidnapped

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South Africa fights for cheaper drugs, slavery in Mauritania and a sex therapy legend.

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A Jamaican drug lord, New York鈥檚 drag scene and cold war chess in the Soviet Union.

The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
Egypt's Arab Spring, abortions in 1960s America, the champion of the Parthenon Marbles

The Iron Curtain
Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, South Africa's Sharpeville massacre and a deep dive.

The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines

Black History: The Black Panthers
How radical was the US black rights group? Plus, Mary Wilson of the Supremes