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When Eritrea silenced its critics

An hour of first hand accounts from the past. Starting with a crackdown on opposition voices in...

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The child environmental activist of the 1990s

To mark the start of the UN Climate Change Conference, or COP26, taking place in Glasgow in the...

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The Greenham Common women's peace camp

The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years. Also the first...

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Black history: Britain and race

As part of our British black history coverage we look back at the racism faced by London's first...

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Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

In 1971 photographer Claudia Andujar began documenting the lives of a remote indigenous tribe in...

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Kenya: Westgate mall attack

Eyewitnesses remember the Westgate mall attack in Kenya, the 1990s 'miracle water' craze in...

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The earthquake that devastated Haiti

In 2010 the Haitian capital and surrounding areas were hit by a catastrophic earthquake. Much of...

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9/11 and the war on terror

In a special edition on the terrorist attacks on America, we hear from the White House official...

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Surviving the fall of Saigon

When South Vietnam fell in 1975, most could not escape. In the last days, the US airlifted its...

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My father survived the sinking of the Titanic

Fang Lang was one of six Chinese men who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The six...

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US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon

The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, also the...

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The Berlin Wall

In August 1961, communist East Germany began building the Berlin Wall, which divided the city for...

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Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women

The story of the famed 1970s Indian conservation movement. Plus we speak to Professor Vinita...

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Darfur's ethnic war

We hear about the start of the war in Darfur, through the eyes of a teenage boy whose life was...

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When the Taliban ruled Kabul

Afghans remember life under the Taliban in 1990s Kabul, and we ask Kate Clark of the Afghanistan...

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North Korea's 1990s famine

When the USSR collapsed it could no longer support North Korea, leading to hundreds of thousands...

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Supernatural Sightings

Is there anybody out there? Max Pearson hears about a UFO sighting in rural Zimbabwe in 1994 and...

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The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race

In June 2015 an American anti-racist activist climbed a flagpole on the South Carolina state...

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When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor

On 7 June 1981 Israeli fighter jets launched a surprise attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor...

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The war on drugs

US President Richard Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in 1971 and launched...

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