1472 Episodes

  1. Makaton - the signing system that changes lives

    Published: 11/10/2020

  2. The Guerrilla Girls

    Published: 11/9/2020

  3. The church that rose from the rubble

    Published: 11/6/2020

  4. The 1945 Pan-African Congress

    Published: 11/5/2020

  5. The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

    Published: 11/4/2020

  6. 'I just wanted to be white'

    Published: 11/3/2020

  7. The sex musical that wowed New York and London

    Published: 11/2/2020

  8. With the president on 9/11

    Published: 10/30/2020

  9. Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority

    Published: 10/29/2020

  10. The Watergate scandal

    Published: 10/28/2020

  11. Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president

    Published: 10/27/2020

  12. When JFK won the US presidency

    Published: 10/26/2020

  13. Nasa's pioneering black women

    Published: 10/23/2020

  14. The missing victims of apartheid

    Published: 10/22/2020

  15. The Cutter Incident

    Published: 10/21/2020

  16. Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'

    Published: 10/20/2020

  17. Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs

    Published: 10/19/2020

  18. Saddam Hussein's big movie project

    Published: 10/16/2020

  19. The US Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Published: 10/15/2020

  20. The last of the Kazakh herders

    Published: 10/14/2020

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