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The Mercury Thirteen

'They had the right stuff but they were the wrong sex'. Female astronauts in 1961

• 27 mins

Partition

A look back at the Partition of India in 1947

• 27 mins

In the Wake of Colmcille

The recreation of St Colmcille's journey to Iona in a currach

• 28 mins

Make Do and Mend

Blacksmith Ron Carter talks about the philosphy of 'make do and mend'

• 28 mins

Pablo Fanque

A profile of the first non-white circus proprietor in Britain

• 28 mins

Fighters

The life of the fighter pilot and their role in air warfare

• 29 mins

The 2000 Mile Harvest

Bringing in the wheat harvest in the USA

• 27 mins

Fox Hunting

A look at the world of fox hunting in the UK as it faces being banned

• 28 mins

Lenin

A revisionist profile of the communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

• 27 mins

Paul Robeson - A Welcome in the Hillside

How the plight of unemployed Welsh miners led to the political awakening of Paul Robeson

• 28 mins

The Last Voice

The San people of the Kalahari Desert and the fight to preserve their language

• 27 mins

Death Foretold

How common is murder in Chicago?

• 27 mins

Trokosi Women

What happens to the estimated 30,000 African women held in ritual servitude?

• 28 mins

Last Ditch Stand

The story of the British resistance movement during World War Two

• 28 mins

Living with Pain

A look at the nature of pain and the wide variety of ways people deal with it

• 28 mins

Compensated Dating

Japan, where older, wealthy men offer money and gifts to young girls in exchange for sex

• 27 mins

Titanic - The Unsinkable Legend

A look at why the story of the sinking of the Titanic still fascinates

• 27 mins

Ghosts

A look at investigations into the paranormal

• 28 mins

Tory Island

A visit to the tiny island off the coast of Donegal in Ireland

• 27 mins

Born a Maori

A look at the culture and history of the Maori people of New Zealand

• 28 mins

A Mind to Crime

Are there genetic or biological roots to anti-social behaviour?

• 27 mins

Chico Buarque and Mangueira

Chico Buarque and life in a Brazilian favela

• 27 mins

Cowboys of the Argentine Pampas

Spending time with the gauchos of the Argentine Pampas

• 28 mins

The Story of Tea

The universal appeal and importance of tea

• 28 mins

Lessons in Anatomy

'The ultimate machine is the human body', medical technicians on dissecting cadavers.

• 28 mins

Underground Railroad, Slavery

‘The freedom train’, stories of slaves in the US who escaped via the underground railroad

• 28 mins

In the Footsteps of Joseph Dalton Hooker

Recreating the journey made by Joseph Dalton Hooker up the world's 3rd highest mountain

• 28 mins

The Memoirs of Sayyida Salme

The memoirs of Sayyida Salme, born a Muslim princess in 19th Century Zanzibar

• 28 mins

Sinking of The Lancastria

The forgotten story of the 'worst of all British maritime disasters'

• 27 mins

Leaving the Island

'There was no future in Jamaica at that time'. The experiences of Jamaicans in the UK

• 28 mins