1518 Episoder

  1. Discovering the Terracotta Army

    Udgivet: 21.3.2024
  2. The 'comfort women' of World War Two

    Udgivet: 20.3.2024
  3. Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution

    Udgivet: 19.3.2024
  4. Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write

    Udgivet: 18.3.2024
  5. The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius

    Udgivet: 15.3.2024
  6. Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero

    Udgivet: 14.3.2024
  7. Paraguay adopts its second language

    Udgivet: 13.3.2024
  8. Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate

    Udgivet: 12.3.2024
  9. 11M: The day Madrid was bombed

    Udgivet: 11.3.2024
  10. MH370: The plane that vanished

    Udgivet: 8.3.2024
  11. Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda

    Udgivet: 7.3.2024
  12. The Carnation Revolution in Portugal

    Udgivet: 6.3.2024
  13. French child evacuees of World War Two

    Udgivet: 5.3.2024
  14. Uruguay v the tobacco giant

    Udgivet: 4.3.2024
  15. The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada

    Udgivet: 1.3.2024
  16. The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru

    Udgivet: 29.2.2024
  17. The lost Czech scrolls

    Udgivet: 28.2.2024
  18. Crimea's Soviet holiday camp

    Udgivet: 27.2.2024
  19. Russia annexes Crimea

    Udgivet: 26.2.2024
  20. Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts

    Udgivet: 23.2.2024

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