1518 Episoder

  1. Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs

    Udgivet: 14.4.2021
  2. How a worm helped explain human development

    Udgivet: 13.4.2021
  3. The US Supreme Court's first woman justice

    Udgivet: 12.4.2021
  4. Discovering the Jet Stream

    Udgivet: 9.4.2021
  5. From Leningrad to St Petersburg

    Udgivet: 8.4.2021
  6. David Attenborough's first expedition

    Udgivet: 7.4.2021
  7. Mexico's female serial killer

    Udgivet: 6.4.2021
  8. The women who reclaimed the night

    Udgivet: 5.4.2021
  9. Black Jesus

    Udgivet: 2.4.2021
  10. Kidnapped on an orchid hunt

    Udgivet: 1.4.2021
  11. Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview

    Udgivet: 31.3.2021
  12. When the prisoners ran the prison

    Udgivet: 30.3.2021
  13. Anorexia nervosa

    Udgivet: 29.3.2021
  14. South Africa takes on big pharma

    Udgivet: 25.3.2021
  15. The woman who got America talking about sex

    Udgivet: 24.3.2021
  16. Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’

    Udgivet: 23.3.2021
  17. The Ulster Workers' Strike

    Udgivet: 22.3.2021
  18. The dirtiest chess match in history

    Udgivet: 19.3.2021
  19. Mars-500 isolation experiment

    Udgivet: 18.3.2021
  20. Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden

    Udgivet: 17.3.2021

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