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South Africa takes on big pharma

The fight between Big Pharma and South Africa over the right to import cheap drugs.

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The fight against slavery in Mauritania

Brahim Bilal Ramdhane was born into slavery in the 1960s, now he fights against it.

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Anorexia nervosa

The death of the singer, Karen Carpenter, showed how devastating the illness could be.

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When the prisoners ran the prison

Prisoners at Walpole maximum security prison were in charge for three months in 1973

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Mrs Thatcher鈥檚 ground-breaking Soviet TV interview

How Mrs Thatcher shook up the Soviet media with a landmark interview in Moscow.

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Kidnapped on an orchid hunt

How two Englishmen were seized by Colombian rebels while crossing the lawless Darien Gap

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Black Jesus

In 1967 an African American church minister began preaching that Jesus was black.

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The women who reclaimed the night

How women in England took to the streets to protest against a serial killer

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Mexico's female serial killer

Juana Barraza was found guilty of murdering at least eleven elderly women in Mexico city

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David Attenborough's first expedition

The 麻豆社 programme that launched the career of the famous nature broadcaster

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From Leningrad to St Petersburg

How the people of Russia's second city dropped the great communist leader's name

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Discovering the Jet Stream

Air raids and balloon bombs - the strange story behind the discovery of the Jet Stream

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The US Supreme Court's first woman justice

In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman judge at America's top court

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How a worm helped explain human development

The nematode worm c. elegans has enabled all sorts of discoveries about human biology

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Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs

Hear from a Cuban who fought against the US-backed exiles that invaded Cuba in April 1961

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The vultures saved from extinction

South Asian vultures started dying in huge numbers in the 1990s but no one knew why.

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China's 'Kingdom of women'

An ancient matrilineal society which doesn't believe in marriage and where the women rule

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The Eichmann trial

In April 1961 the Nazi official who ran holocaust death camps was put on trial in Israel

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The return of Blue Lake

How an ancient Native American sacred lake was finally returned to the Taos Pueblo people

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The Raymond Davis Incident

How a shooting in the streets of Lahore brought US-Pakistani relations to the brink

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How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant

How the National Rifle Association turned into a US political lobbying colossus.

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The first space shuttle mission

How the space shuttle Columbia revolutionised manned space exploration

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The siege of Mecca

In 1979 Islamist militants took over the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam

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Meeting Osama bin Laden

One man's story of his journey to talk to the Al-Qaeda leader in 1996

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The Nairobi US Embassy bombing

A survivor's account of the al-Qaeda attacks in East Africa in 1998 which killed hundreds

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The battle of Tora Bora

How US special forces lost bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan in December 2001

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The killing of Osama Bin Laden

The man behind the 9/11 attacks was killed by US special forces on 2 May 2011

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How Amsterdam became the cannabis smoking capital of Europe

How Amsterdam became the home of cannabis coffee shops.

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The IRA hunger strikes

Republican prisoner Bobby Sands died in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland on May 5 1981

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Ursula Le Guin

The pioneer of feminist science fiction and creator of the Earthsea fantasy series

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