1472 Episodes

  1. The world's first environment conference

    Published: 10/26/2021

  2. Proving climate change: the 'Keeling Curve'

    Published: 10/25/2021

  3. Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’

    Published: 10/22/2021

  4. The Greenham Common women's peace camp

    Published: 10/21/2021

  5. Polish refugees in Africa

    Published: 10/20/2021

  6. The mysterious death of Samora Machel

    Published: 10/19/2021

  7. The first transgender minister in the Church of England

    Published: 10/18/2021

  8. The doctor killed by an anti-abortion extremist

    Published: 10/15/2021

  9. The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors

    Published: 10/14/2021

  10. The story of 'Baby Jessica'

    Published: 10/13/2021

  11. Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally

    Published: 10/12/2021

  12. Winning the Arabic Booker prize

    Published: 10/11/2021

  13. Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer

    Published: 10/8/2021

  14. The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

    Published: 10/7/2021

  15. A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain

    Published: 10/6/2021

  16. Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'

    Published: 10/5/2021

  17. London's first black policeman

    Published: 10/4/2021

  18. The Tanker War

    Published: 10/1/2021

  19. Petra Kelly and the German Greens

    Published: 9/30/2021

  20. 'Mad cow disease' and CJD

    Published: 9/29/2021

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