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The first commercially successful electronic cigarette
10 mins; April 03, 2026
Spain welcomes Picasso’s Guernica
10 mins; April 02, 2026
New Nordic cuisine
10 mins; April 01, 2026
The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck
10 mins; March 31, 2026
Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II
4 mins; March 30, 2026
Echo and the elephants
10 mins; March 30, 2026
Anthony Bourdain's Don't Eat Before Reading This
10 mins; March 27, 2026
The first Great Wall of China trek
9 mins; March 26, 2026
How a Maasai community in Kenya overcame a deadly drought
10 mins; March 25, 2026
The only Pope to visit New Zealand
10 mins; March 24, 2026
The reunification of Germany
10 mins; March 23, 2026
Women's rights in independent Tunisia
10 mins; March 20, 2026
The 'Cyprus Emergency'
10 mins; March 19, 2026
Oslo's anti-racism demonstration
10 mins; March 18, 2026
The L'Amicale Four
10 mins; March 17, 2026
The nuclear mango deal
11 mins; March 16, 2026
Casablanca: Making one of Hollywood’s greatest movies
10 mins; March 13, 2026
How Rang De Basanti inspired a generation
10 mins; March 12, 2026
I starred in Pan’s Labyrinth
11 mins; March 11, 2026
My father directed Seven Samurai
10 mins; March 10, 2026
Triumph of the Will: A Nazi propaganda film
10 mins; March 09, 2026
The invention of the mobility scooter
10 mins; March 06, 2026
India’s first nuclear test
9 mins; March 05, 2026
Portugal’s worst train disaster
10 mins; March 04, 2026
Elvis visits Scotland
11 mins; March 03, 2026
The Origins of Ska Music
8 mins; March 02, 2026
Sweden’s diplomatic freeze with the USA
9 mins; March 02, 2026
Syria's secret library
10 mins; February 27, 2026
Charles Taylor and the blood diamond trial
10 mins; February 26, 2026
The Japanese invasion of Malaya
10 mins; February 25, 2026
The Aga Khan meets Florence Nightingale
10 mins; February 24, 2026
The storming of Spain's parliament
10 mins; February 23, 2026
The playboy spy who inspired James Bond
10 mins; February 20, 2026
'I taught the Dalai Lama'
10 mins; February 19, 2026
The photo which symbolised Argentina’s resistance
10 mins; February 18, 2026
Toxic shock syndrome and tampon safety
10 mins; February 17, 2026
World War Two’s Shetland Bus
10 mins; February 16, 2026
The flooding of Florence
10 mins; February 13, 2026
The Mont Blanc Tunnel
9 mins; February 12, 2026
Gina Lollobrigida interviews Fidel Castro
10 mins; February 11, 2026
When Pink Floyd played in Venice
10 mins; February 10, 2026
The discovery of nerve growth factor
10 mins; February 09, 2026
My dad created Mr Men and Little Miss
10 mins; February 06, 2026
Austria's wine scandal
10 mins; February 05, 2026
Jimmy Carter visits Cuba
10 mins; February 04, 2026
Cuba's Mariel boatlift
10 mins; February 03, 2026
The 'Jugroom Fort' rescue mission
10 mins; February 02, 2026
Ă–tzi: The Iceman of Bolzano
9 mins; January 30, 2026
The Kaohsiung Incident
10 mins; January 29, 2026
Chile's 'Penguin Revolution'
9 mins; January 28, 2026
The liberation of Auschwitz
10 mins; January 27, 2026
John Logie Baird invents television
10 mins; January 26, 2026
Agatha Christie: best-selling novelist of all time
10 mins; January 23, 2026
The Challenger space shuttle tragedy
10 mins; January 22, 2026
Operation Mincemeat
10 mins; January 21, 2026
The Irish priest who built an airport
9 mins; January 20, 2026
Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
10 mins; January 19, 2026
Weekend listening: The History Bureau
3 mins; January 16, 2026
Afghan Star
10 mins; January 16, 2026
The deadly Vargas mudslides in Venezuela
10 mins; January 15, 2026
Creating Cluedo
10 mins; January 14, 2026
The creation of the modern kitchen
10 mins; January 13, 2026
The first PC virus
10 mins; January 12, 2026
Battle of Gallipoli
10 mins; January 09, 2026
Sazae-san: World's longest-running cartoon
10 mins; January 08, 2026
Tracey Emin’s unmade bed
10 mins; January 07, 2026
Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits
9 mins; January 06, 2026
The Hillsborough Disaster
10 mins; January 05, 2026
South Africa's luxury train
10 mins; January 02, 2026
The American Freedom Train
9 mins; January 01, 2026
The longest musical composition
10 mins; December 31, 2025
Radio Free Europe
9 mins; December 30, 2025
SMS: The invention of text messaging
10 mins; December 29, 2025
Creating the board game Catan
10 mins; December 26, 2025
Tamagotchi is born
9 mins; December 25, 2025
How the hoverboard was created
10 mins; December 24, 2025
Inventing Play-Doh
10 mins; December 23, 2025
The invention of Jenga
10 mins; December 22, 2025
The first television opera
10 mins; December 19, 2025
When Laurel and Hardy spent Christmas at an English pub
10 mins; December 18, 2025
When Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japan
10 mins; December 17, 2025
India's disability law
10 mins; December 16, 2025
How NFL tickets caught fugitives
10 mins; December 15, 2025
Introducing The Bomb: Kennedy and Khrushchev
4 mins; December 12, 2025
The Paris climate agreement
10 mins; December 12, 2025
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
11 mins; December 11, 2025
The discovery of the coelacanth
10 mins; December 10, 2025
Dismaland: Banksy's dystopian theme park
10 mins; December 09, 2025
The Balcombe Street IRA siege
9 mins; December 08, 2025
How Lagos Fashion Week began
10 mins; December 05, 2025
Wole Soyinka: Imprisoned during Nigeria’s Biafra war
10 mins; December 04, 2025
Escaping Nigeria's Biafra war
10 mins; December 03, 2025
Building the New Afrika Shrine in Nigeria
11 mins; December 02, 2025
West Africa fights back against Boko Haram
11 mins; December 01, 2025
Ravi and George
10 mins; November 28, 2025
India goes to the UN
10 mins; November 27, 2025
The Howard Hughes literary hoax
10 mins; November 26, 2025
Colombia's Salt Cathedral
10 mins; November 25, 2025
Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film
10 mins; November 24, 2025
How the Bosnian war ended
10 mins; November 21, 2025
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