The missing victims of apartheid

How a South African team is searching for those who disappeared during apartheid rule

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Nasa's pioneering black women

The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme

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Nasa's pioneering black women

The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme

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When JFK won the US presidency

The US election of 1960 was a close race between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

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Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president

The pioneering politician who launched a run for the US presidency in 1972.

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The Watergate scandal

The investigation that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974.

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Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority

How US religious conservatives organised in the 1970s to get Republicans elected.

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With the president on 9/11

How former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card broke news of 9/11 to President Bush

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The sex musical that wowed New York and London

In 1969 a theatrical revue called Oh Calcutta opened. It featured male and female nudity.

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'I just wanted to be white'

Growing up as a black child in post-war Germany

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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

The Israeli PM was shot by an extremist opposed to the peace process on November 4th 1995

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The 1945 Pan-African Congress

How a meeting in Manchester shaped the post-war struggle against colonialism

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The church that rose from the rubble

Reconstructing Dresden's historic baroque church.

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The Guerrilla Girls

The women who launched an anonymous poster campaign against sexism and racism in art.

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Makaton - the signing system that changes lives

The creation of a communication system for people with learning difficulties in the 1970s

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World War One in Africa

Rare recordings of African veterans of WW1 in East Africa

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When Pluto lost its planet status

An international committee of astronomers agreed Pluto wasn't really a planet in 2006

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The 'good enough' mother

Donald Winnicott helped mothers understand babies through psychoanalysis in the 1940s.

• 9 mins

Captured by Somali pirates

Captain Colin Darch and his crew were held hostage by pirates for 47 days in 2008

• 14 mins

The world's first woman premier

In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman Prime Minister

• 9 mins

America's WW2 refugee camp

How nearly a thousand Jewish refugees were housed in an old fort near New York during WW2

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Our Bodies, Ourselves

The story of a radical book about women’s health and sexuality.

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When the Egyptian president went to Israel

Why Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to visit Israel in November 1977

• 9 mins

Helen Keller

The deaf and blind American writer who became famous around the world

• 9 mins

Britain's little blue disability car

For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled cars for transport

• 9 mins

India's campaign for disability rights

How activists forced through the first law to help tens of millions of disabled Indians

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Rwanda at the Paralympics

In 2012, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team became their country's first Paralympians

• 9 mins

The fight for disabled rights in the UK

The wheelchair warriors who brought London to a standstill to make their point

• 9 mins

How Ethiopian rebels took power in 1991

In 1991 a Tigrayan-led rebel movement took power in Addis Ababa ending years of war

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Iraq's pioneering feminist

Dr Naziha Al-Dulaimi was the first woman to hold a ministerial office in the Arab world

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