The History Hour Episodes Available now
Britain's secret propaganda war
'Fake news' in WW2, why Indian police blinded detainees and the Berlin Wall rock concert
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
The secret 1960s US abortion network and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef.
The fall of the Berlin Wall
A look at events across Europe in 1989 that led to the wall coming down in Germany.
An environmental history special
A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world
Black British history
Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.
The birth of the People's Republic of China
70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.
Fighting the Islamic State group online
The Mosul historian who battled IS online, plus growing up black under Hitler
The Cambridge spy network
The distinguished British art historian exposed as a former Soviet spy.
Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
The outbreak of World War Two
Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.