1518 Episodes

  1. America's WW2 refugee camp

    Published: 11/18/2020

  2. The world's first woman premier

    Published: 11/17/2020

  3. Captured by Somali pirates

    Published: 11/16/2020

  4. The 'good enough' mother

    Published: 11/13/2020

  5. When Pluto lost its planet status

    Published: 11/12/2020

  6. World War One in Africa

    Published: 11/11/2020

  7. Makaton - the signing system that changes lives

    Published: 11/10/2020

  8. The Guerrilla Girls

    Published: 11/9/2020

  9. The church that rose from the rubble

    Published: 11/6/2020

  10. The 1945 Pan-African Congress

    Published: 11/5/2020

  11. The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

    Published: 11/4/2020

  12. 'I just wanted to be white'

    Published: 11/3/2020

  13. The sex musical that wowed New York and London

    Published: 11/2/2020

  14. With the president on 9/11

    Published: 10/30/2020

  15. Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority

    Published: 10/29/2020

  16. The Watergate scandal

    Published: 10/28/2020

  17. Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president

    Published: 10/27/2020

  18. When JFK won the US presidency

    Published: 10/26/2020

  19. Nasa's pioneering black women

    Published: 10/23/2020

  20. The missing victims of apartheid

    Published: 10/22/2020

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