The History Hour Episodes Available now
Kenya's ivory inferno
Highlighting the threat from poaching, solving the common cold, plus China and the tampon
Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'
Life under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, kidnapped by the Contras and the first Walkman.
The Stonewall riot
The riot that inspired the gay rights movement; genocide against the Kurds; and Catch-22
The assassination of Medgar Evers
An American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star and the psychoanalyst CG Jung
The first anti-psychotic drug
A mental health breakthrough, the end of the Kosovan war, and a trailblazing gay wedding.
D-Day
Eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings, Vikings in England and the Little Prince
Tiananmen Square
Remembering Tiananmen Square, the internet's first social network, and Sesame Street
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
LBGT activism in Uganda, the start of Greenpeace, Bangladesh acid attacks, and dinosaurs.
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
The last battles of a brutal conflict plus how the Nazis stole children.
The war on drugs
US efforts to deal with illegal drugs in 1971, plus the rise of Jack Ma in China.
