The History Hour Episodes Available now
The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial
Alleged sex abuse on a remote island, a controversial Kurdish song, men versus computers
Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter
The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.
Shell Shock
The psychiatric cost of WW1; Hungary's 1956 uprising, Marvel Comics and London's Big Bang
The Mayak Nuclear Disaster
A nuclear disaster, America's worst prison riot, World War Two internment and apartheid
The University of Texas Shooting
The first campus killings in the US; an arts festival in Lebanon; meeting JD Salinger
First CIA coup in Latin America
America's fight against communism; giant China earthquake; riots in Liverpool; Picasso.
Tanzania's Ujamaa
Socialism in Tanzania, assassination in the Caribbean, the Concordski crash and Date Rape
The Thalidomide Trial
German drugs company goes on trial; Hands Across America; the execution of Anne Boleyn.
Remembering Chernobyl
Remembering Chernobyl, Charles Darwin and the McCarthy era, plus 60s icon, the Mini
The Original Revolutionary Feminist
Feminism in the 20th century, poisoning in the Balkans, and a miscarriage of justice