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Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
10 mins; February 14, 2025
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
9 mins; February 13, 2025
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
10 mins; February 12, 2025
Eisenhower's farewell address
9 mins; February 11, 2025
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish civil war
10 mins; February 10, 2025
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
9 mins; February 07, 2025
The first global case of coral bleaching
10 mins; February 06, 2025
Cuban blindness
10 mins; February 05, 2025
Oradour massacre
9 mins; February 04, 2025
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
10 mins; February 03, 2025
English TV lessons in China go primetime
10 mins; January 31, 2025
1968 New York City teachers' strike
9 mins; January 30, 2025
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
10 mins; January 29, 2025
The Baltic chain protest
9 mins; January 28, 2025
The Milltown Cemetery attack
10 mins; January 27, 2025
The launch of Windows 95
10 mins; January 24, 2025
Replacing the Panchen Lama
10 mins; January 23, 2025
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
10 mins; January 22, 2025
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
9 mins; January 21, 2025
Hunting the Unabomber
10 mins; January 20, 2025
Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
10 mins; January 17, 2025
'I wrote Schindler's List'
10 mins; January 16, 2025
Kobe earthquake
10 mins; January 15, 2025
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
10 mins; January 14, 2025
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
10 mins; January 13, 2025
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
10 mins; January 10, 2025
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
8 mins; January 09, 2025
The invention of the hotel key card
10 mins; January 08, 2025
Charlie Hebdo attack
9 mins; January 07, 2025
Marie Kondo
10 mins; January 06, 2025
Creating Alexa
10 mins; January 03, 2025
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
9 mins; January 02, 2025
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
10 mins; January 01, 2025
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
10 mins; December 31, 2024
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
9 mins; December 30, 2024
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
9 mins; December 27, 2024
'Kimchi war'
10 mins; December 26, 2024
Chef to five presidents
9 mins; December 25, 2024
When instant noodles came to India
9 mins; December 24, 2024
'I created MasterChef'
9 mins; December 23, 2024
Australian republic referendum
10 mins; December 20, 2024
Poland's bleak Christmas
9 mins; December 19, 2024
Ceefax: the start of interactive television
10 mins; December 18, 2024
Surviving Andes plane crash
9 mins; December 17, 2024
Peshawar school massacre
9 mins; December 16, 2024
The birth of reggaeton
9 mins; December 13, 2024
The handover of the Panama Canal
9 mins; December 12, 2024
The Purple Heart Warriors
10 mins; December 11, 2024
Castro's Cuban revolution attempt
10 mins; December 09, 2024
India’s 1998 nuclear tests
9 mins; December 06, 2024
Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism
10 mins; December 05, 2024
The ‘Three Marias’
9 mins; December 04, 2024
The discovery that led to Covid vaccines
10 mins; December 03, 2024
Gloria Steinem: The start of Ms. Magazine
10 mins; December 02, 2024
The end of the US HIV travel ban
9 mins; November 29, 2024
The deepest man-made hole in the world
10 mins; November 28, 2024
Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
9 mins; November 27, 2024
The Iran-Contra Affair
9 mins; November 26, 2024
Strictly Come Dancing
10 mins; November 25, 2024
Creation of the UFC
10 mins; November 22, 2024
Lord of the Flies
9 mins; November 21, 2024
Handover of Macau
10 mins; November 20, 2024
The Siege of Yarmouk
10 mins; November 19, 2024
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
8 mins; November 18, 2024
German naturists
9 mins; November 15, 2024
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
10 mins; November 14, 2024
India's capsule coal mine rescue
10 mins; November 13, 2024
How Greece got rid of their king
9 mins; November 12, 2024
The Pakistan mountain massacre
9 mins; November 11, 2024
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
10 mins; November 08, 2024
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
9 mins; November 07, 2024
The Shah of Iran's party
8 mins; November 06, 2024
In exile from Iran
9 mins; November 05, 2024
Iran hostage crisis
9 mins; November 04, 2024
Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
9 mins; November 01, 2024
Brazil’s electronic voting
9 mins; October 31, 2024
The Ken Burns Effect
8 mins; October 30, 2024
Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator
9 mins; October 29, 2024
The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
10 mins; October 28, 2024
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
8 mins; October 25, 2024
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
8 mins; October 24, 2024
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
10 mins; October 23, 2024
I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
9 mins; October 22, 2024
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
9 mins; October 21, 2024
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
10 mins; October 18, 2024
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
9 mins; October 17, 2024
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
9 mins; October 16, 2024
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
10 mins; October 15, 2024
The Sunflower Movement
9 mins; October 14, 2024
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
10 mins; October 11, 2024
How the QR code was invented
10 mins; October 10, 2024
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
9 mins; October 09, 2024
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
9 mins; October 08, 2024
Eliza: When chatbots started
10 mins; October 07, 2024
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
9 mins; October 04, 2024
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
9 mins; October 03, 2024
South Africa’s nuclear weapons
9 mins; October 02, 2024
Cambodia war crimes
9 mins; October 01, 2024
Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass
9 mins; September 30, 2024
The Estonia ferry disaster
9 mins; September 27, 2024
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