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52 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service News InternetLatest broadcast: on BBC Afghan Radio
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The opening of a famous ski resort, the worst ever international football defeat and the murder of a transgender woman in Honduras. Show more
52 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service News InternetLatest broadcast: on BBC Afghan Radio
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A bloodless war, an ancient Peruvian ruler and Crimea. Show more
52 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service News InternetLatest broadcast: on BBC Afghan Radio
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Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate, the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius and honky-tonk star Winifred Atwell who was Sir Elton John’s hero. Show more
52 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service News InternetLatest broadcast: on BBC Afghan Radio
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When Uruguay introduced a pioneering smoking ban, the toppling of Europe’s longest-surviving authoritarian regime and the disappearance of flight MH370. Show more
52 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service News InternetLatest broadcast: on BBC Afghan Radio
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Discovering the Terracotta Army, the man who modernised the Chinese language and when British pop group Wham became the first western act to play in China. Show more
51 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service South AsiaLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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How riots toppled a dictator; honouring Holocaust survivors in film; BBC lesbian protest. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service OnlineLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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From the 1945 division of the peninsula to the death of Kim II-sung, listen to first hand accounts of the turbulent history of North and South Korea. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
Asbestos-related deaths in an Australian town, the doctor who first described child abuse, the first warning about climate change, and a shoe maker who went global. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service OnlineLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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How a US warship downed a passenger jet killing 290 people, plus a controversial Russian art 'masterpiece', Madeleine Albright on Kosovo and the history of adventure playgrounds. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC World Service OnlineLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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India's first successful nuclear test, journalists under threat in Germany, the "Phantom" refugee shipwreck, plus remembering Chinua Achebe and the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC World Service OnlineLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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Britain's First World War conscientious objectors, Iran bends the nuclear rules, the CIA's first coup in Latin America, dancing bears, and the culling of a sacred bull in Wales Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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Interviewing a senior Nazi; the Soviet fight against alcohol; and a woman's voice from pre-colonial Nigeria. Show more
51 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2, plus Hitler's girl guides, how Benidorm became a tourist hotspot, Italian migrant tragedy in post-war Belgium and the Lake Nyos disaster. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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A lucky escape from a jet plane fire in the 1970s, Chamberlain's talks with Hitler in 1938 and the killing of the South Africa anti-apartheid campaigner, Steve Biko. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC World Service AustralasiaLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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Operation Market Garden, Brazil's nuclear accident, the Battle of Algiers, plus Britain's last steam train and the Cuban Five. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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The Nazis' secret arrest list for Britain, privation in wartime and Allied-occupied Austria, anti-traveller riots in 1940s Sweden and the role of Britain's hereditary peers Show more
51 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa
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A strange illness strikes Belgian teenagers, Brazil's forgotten Amazon war, diverting Mount Etna's lava, arguments over aid and trade in the UK, and the 1973 oil crisis. Show more
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
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First broadcast: on BBC World Service News InternetLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East
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Eyewitness accounts of the devastating war that changed the world. Show more
