When did Max Pearson hear about a UFO sighting?
Is there anybody out there? Max Pearson hears about a UFO sighting in rural Zimbabwe in 1994 and talks to Gideon Lewis-Kraus of the New Yorker about whether the US Pentagon is takin…
What happened in the 1990s in North Korea?
North Korea's 1990s famine. When the USSR collapsed it could no longer support North Korea, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths due to starvation and malnutrition. We hear from one survivor and Prof Hazel Smith w…. 50 min.
LGBT history special
Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.
Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.
Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
The Indian independence campaigner who sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two.
The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
The Saudi women who used social media to campaign against being banned from the roads.
The birth of Bangladesh
How a war of independence in 1971 reshaped South Asia and killed hundreds of thousands.
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Mozambique’s struggle to end Portuguese colonial rule and the assassination of Eduardo Mondlane, we'll hear from his daughter Nyeleti...
A history of games
The inside story of games that shaped the modern world. Including Atari's Nolan Bushnell on his game Pong which helped launch the video game...
The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
In 2011, cybersecurity expert Manal Al-Sharif helped found the Women2Drive movement. It was designed to force the Saudi Arabian government...
The birth of Bangladesh
A special edition on the Bangladesh War of Independence, which ended 50 years ago in December 1971. The conflict killed hundreds of...
What was life like under the Taliban in the 1990s?
Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine. UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer. The Stonewall Riot, China's "Cooperative Marriages" and LGBT activism in Ivory Coast.
What happened in 1981?
The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections. Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike. The forerunner of the Arab Spring; fighting repression in South Korea; saving wetlands.
