1472 Episodes

  1. The assassination of King Faisal

    Published: 12/19/2023

  2. Tsunami devastates Samoa

    Published: 12/18/2023

  3. The funeral of Nelson Mandela

    Published: 12/15/2023

  4. Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

    Published: 12/14/2023

  5. Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime

    Published: 12/13/2023

  6. Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs

    Published: 12/12/2023

  7. Murder of the Romanovs

    Published: 12/11/2023

  8. The release of DOOM

    Published: 12/8/2023

  9. ‘The disappeared’ of Argentina

    Published: 12/7/2023

  10. A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power

    Published: 12/6/2023

  11. La Haine: The film that shocked France

    Published: 12/4/2023

  12. World's first solar-heated home

    Published: 12/1/2023

  13. Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country

    Published: 11/30/2023

  14. The bird that defied extinction

    Published: 11/28/2023

  15. Cabbage Patch Kids

    Published: 11/27/2023

  16. The Mumbai attacks

    Published: 11/24/2023

  17. The Paris heatwave

    Published: 11/23/2023

  18. Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory

    Published: 11/22/2023

  19. The invention of bubble tea

    Published: 11/21/2023

  20. The independence of Zambia

    Published: 11/20/2023

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