1472 Episoder

  1. Algeria: The Massacre in Paris

    Udgivet: 27.4.2022
  2. The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience

    Udgivet: 26.4.2022
  3. Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber

    Udgivet: 25.4.2022
  4. The battle for Kinder Scout

    Udgivet: 22.4.2022
  5. Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising

    Udgivet: 21.4.2022
  6. Britain's Soviet spy scandal

    Udgivet: 20.4.2022
  7. Women's rights in Basra

    Udgivet: 19.4.2022
  8. Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme

    Udgivet: 18.4.2022
  9. The World Wide Web

    Udgivet: 15.4.2022
  10. How Tinder changed the dating game

    Udgivet: 14.4.2022
  11. Greece's Great Famine

    Udgivet: 13.4.2022
  12. The largest war crimes trial in history

    Udgivet: 12.4.2022
  13. Nato intervenes in Kosovo

    Udgivet: 11.4.2022
  14. The Great American Grain Robbery

    Udgivet: 8.4.2022
  15. The handshake in Space

    Udgivet: 7.4.2022
  16. The Soviet Afghan War Begins

    Udgivet: 6.4.2022
  17. The Falklands War - an Argentine account

    Udgivet: 5.4.2022
  18. Escaping a Maoist cult

    Udgivet: 1.4.2022
  19. Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers

    Udgivet: 31.3.2022
  20. Afghanistan's women's newspaper

    Udgivet: 30.3.2022

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