The History Hour Episodes Available now
The war on drugs
US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971
Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend
Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike.
When Egypt said Enough
The forerunner of the Arab Spring; fighting repression in South Korea; saving wetlands
Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
A history of psychedelic experiments, contraception in Ireland, an Iraqi escape story
The IRA hunger strikes
Hunger strikes in Northern Ireland, wine fraud, and feminist science fiction
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
The life and death of the al-Qaeda leader, the man behind the 9/11 attacks
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
A history of the gun lobby in the US, the Eichmann trial in 1961, the first space shuttle
The first woman in the US Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to America's top court, plus the Bay of Pigs invasion
The women who reclaimed the night
Women's night-time protest, a Mexican female serial killer and the jet stream.
Black Jesus
The pastor who argued God was black; Mrs Thatcher wows Moscow; orchid-hunters kidnapped
