1472 Episoder

  1. Plastics in oceans

    Udgivet: 9.1.2023
  2. Pussy Riot’s cathedral protest

    Udgivet: 6.1.2023
  3. The man Pinochet wanted dead

    Udgivet: 5.1.2023
  4. When America banned silicone breast implants

    Udgivet: 4.1.2023
  5. Arctic African

    Udgivet: 3.1.2023
  6. One team in Tallinn

    Udgivet: 2.1.2023
  7. The birth of the Slow Food Movement

    Udgivet: 30.12.2022
  8. Inventing instant noodles

    Udgivet: 29.12.2022
  9. Malta's bread strike

    Udgivet: 28.12.2022
  10. Inventing Chicken Manchurian

    Udgivet: 27.12.2022
  11. Creating ciabatta bread

    Udgivet: 26.12.2022
  12. Chile mine rescue

    Udgivet: 23.12.2022
  13. Grozny siege

    Udgivet: 22.12.2022
  14. Colombia's 'false positives' killings

    Udgivet: 21.12.2022
  15. The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain

    Udgivet: 20.12.2022
  16. Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service

    Udgivet: 19.12.2022
  17. Felix Baumgartner's huge leap

    Udgivet: 16.12.2022
  18. Soviet fashionista

    Udgivet: 15.12.2022
  19. Returning to District Six

    Udgivet: 14.12.2022
  20. The Nazi occupation of Jersey

    Udgivet: 13.12.2022

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