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Reform of the House of Lords
How Britain's Labour government tried to kick the aristocrats out of Parliament
Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden
In 1948 violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden
The Nazi Black Book
During WW2 listed the people it wanted to arrest should Britain fall to the Nazis
Austria at War
The story of a young Austrian woman who survived World War Two and the allied occupation
Archbishop Oscar Romero
Murdered while head of the Roman Catholic church in El Salvador, he is being made a saint
Fighting Mount Etna
How the Italian authorities diverted the stream of molten lava from the Etna volcano.
The 1973 Oil Crisis
In October 1973 an Arab oil embargo caused prices to rocket.
Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon
How a small guerrilla group tried to start a revolution in the Brazilian jungle.
The Pergau Dam Affair
In 1993 news broke about development aid linked to a British arms deal.
When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola
When Belgian teenagers got sick they blamed Coca-Cola but the truth was more mysterious
Desmond Tutu Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Apartheid South Africa's outspoken critic Bishop Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize
The Arrest in London of Augusto Pinochet
The former ruler of Chile, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998
Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'
The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's
When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed
Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003
The Day Nigeria Struck Oil
An eyewitness of a discovery that changed Nigerian history
The KGB's Whistleblower
KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's top secret archive was smuggled to Britain in 1992
Life With America's Black Panthers
Memories of the radical African American leader, Eldridge Cleaver.
Princess Margaret And The War Hero
How a love affair between the Queen's sister and Captain Peter Townsend gripped Britain.
Why I Slapped the German Chancellor
In November 1968 a young activist hit 's leader to draw attention to his Nazi past
A Kristallnacht story
Nora Krug investigated Nazi attacks in her German hometown on 9 November 1938
The Battle of chendaele
It was one of the battles which symbolised the horror and futility of WW1
African Troops during World War One
Thousands of East Africans were conscripted to fight for Britain and during WW1
Women Nurses during World War One
Thousands of women volunteered for war work during WW1. Hear archive from one of them.
WW1: Revolution in
Eyewitness s of the collapse of in the final weeks of war in November 1918
Armistice Day 1918
On November 11th 1918, at 11 o'clock, the guns of World War One finally fell silent
How The Brazilian Dictatorship Made My Father Disappear
Writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva re the day his father was taken by the military.
Jewish in Imperial Russia
A young woman's rare of Jewish life in imperial Russia.
The Shah in Exile
Iranians stormed the US embassy in Iran in November 79 after America allowed in the Shah
Japanese Murders in Brazil
Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.
Britain's Little Blue Disability Car
For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled, turquoise cars
The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington
Recorded memories of the funeral in 1852 of the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon.
