The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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Cambodian genocide trials
Sat 18 Jun 2022
Cambodian Genocide trials, 'Napalm Girl' from the Vietnam War, and the Holy Cross dispute
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How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
Sat 11 Jun 2022
Suicide bombing attack on Sri Lanka's president, Anne Frank's diary and Gabon's forests
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The Syrian civil war
Sat 4 Jun 2022
Chemical weapons attack in Syria, lynching outlawed in America and the Queen's coronation
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Artists who made history
Sat 28 May 2022
Memories of Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, banned Russian art
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The Marcos regime in the Philippines
Sat 21 May 2022
The rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior; Shanghai during World War Two; McDonald's in Russia
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The war in Transnistria
Sat 14 May 2022
Moldova battles Russian-backed separatists; Egypt bread riots; Eyjafjallaj枚kull erupts
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Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Sat 7 May 2022
Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling
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Algeria's War of Independence
Sat 30 Apr 2022
60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic 鈥渂irth of a nation鈥�
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The Falkands War
Sat 9 Apr 2022
Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.
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Protesting against Putin
Sat 2 Apr 2022
A decade ago demonstrators tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
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Ukrainian history special
Sat 26 Mar 2022
The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
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Women who made history
Sat 12 Mar 2022
US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.
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Russia under Putin
Sat 5 Mar 2022
How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments
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LGBT history special
Sat 19 Feb 2022
Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.
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The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Sat 12 Feb 2022
Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future
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Kazakhstan's new capital
Sat 5 Feb 2022
Kazakhstan鈥檚 new capital, the first Emirati female teacher, and a rare celestial event
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Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
Sat 29 Jan 2022
UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.
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The rise of Boko Haram
Sat 22 Jan 2022
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
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Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
Sat 15 Jan 2022
The Indian independence campaigner who sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two.
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Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Sat 8 Jan 2022
The liberation leader was assassinated in 1969 in the struggle to end Portuguese rule
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A history of games
New Year's Day 2022
The inside story of Pong, Grand Theft Auto, Tetris, Lego and Monopoly
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The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
Christmas Day 2021
The Saudi women who used social media to campaign against being banned from the roads.
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The birth of Bangladesh
Sat 18 Dec 2021
How a war of independence in 1971 reshaped South Asia and killed hundreds of thousands.
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The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Sat 27 Nov 2021
Women activists in the Caribbean, the last case of Smallpox in Europe and assisted dying.
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Sudan's October Revolution
Sat 20 Nov 2021
How in 1964 Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime
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The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
Sat 13 Nov 2021
The killing of Eudy Simelane, spying in East Germany and racism in 1960s British schools
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When Eritrea silenced its critics
Sat 6 Nov 2021
A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu
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The child environmental activist of the 1990s
Sat 30 Oct 2021
Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.
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The Greenham Common women's peace camp
Sat 23 Oct 2021
The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years
