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The Thames Whale

In January 2006, millions of Londoners were entranced by the appearance of a whale.

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The Case of Dr Crippen

How one of the most notorious murderers in Edwardian London was captured

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India's First Call Centre

In the late 1990s a businessman started a new industry in India

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The Carry On Films

The British comic film franchise which found fans around the world

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Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church

Pope John XXIII wanted to modernise the Catholic Church, reforms took place in the 1960s.

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The Beatles' Last Gig

In 1969, the Beatles played together in public for the last time, on a London rooftop.

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The Publisher Who Tried to Change the World

Virago Press opened as a feminist publisher in 1972 to promote women's writing

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Musicians of the Iranian Revolution

How Iran's state employed musicians started recording revolutionary songs.

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Ayatollah Khomeini Returns From Exile

In February 1979 an Islamic revolution began when Iran's exiled religious leader returned

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Iran Hostage Crisis

Barry Rosen was one of the Americans held hostage for 444 days in Tehran.

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Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

The US sent special forces to try to rescue hostages from their Embassy in Tehran in 1980

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Women and the Iranian Revolution

Many women supported Iran's 1979 Revolution but some later became disillusioned

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The Death of Hitler

A first-hand account of Hitler from one of his secretaries who was there at the very end

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The Capture of Che Guevara

How the Marxist revolutionary was captured and killed in Bolivia.

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The Soweto Uprising

A former schoolgirl remembers the demonstration that sparked an uprising in South Africa.

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Disney Goes to Europe

The first Disney theme park in Europe took years of negotiations to get off the ground.

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The Bombardment of Baghdad

The people of Baghdad faced death when the US and its allies began their invasion of Iraq

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Iceland Jails Its Bankers

The man who jailed 40 top bankers in Iceland after the 2008 global credit crunch

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Women Airline Pilots

Two of the first female airline pilots in the US remember their struggle

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British Cameroons' historic referendum

The 1961 vote lies at the heart of the violent conflict in Cameroon's Anglophone region

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Confessions of a Soviet alcoholic

How a homeless Russian drunk wrote a secret classic

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Maastricht: The birth of the European Union

In 1992 European ministers signed a treaty towards greater economic and political unity.

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The true story of Roma

The student massacre in México portrayed in Alfonso Cuarón's award-winning movie.

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The Columbia space shuttle disaster

The US space shuttle disintegrated on its way back to Earth on February 1, 2003.

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The curse of Agent Orange

One woman's battle against the toxic legacy of the Vietnam War

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The men who tried to warn us about smoking

When doctors said cigarette smokers were dying prematurely the UK government did little.

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How science ended the search for Josef Mengele

A panel of scientists went to Brazil to identify the remains of the infamous Nazi in 1985

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Venezuela's oil bonanza

The boom and bust years of "Saudi" Venezuela in the 1970s

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Swine flu shuts down Mexico City

A highly infectious virus appeared in Mexico in 2009 and rapidly spread round the world

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Sucked out of a plane

Nine people died when a cargo door opened mid-flight over the Pacific in February 1989

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