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The Musical Cabaret

Director Hal Prince remembers the hit musical opening on Broadway in November 1966

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The Stockholm Syndrome

One of the original Stockholm hostages talks about her kidnap ordeal.

• 11 mins

Marcel Duchamp in New York

Remembering a wartime surrealist exhibition put on by Marcel Duchamp.

• 11 mins

Plane spotters arrested in Greece

In Nov 2001 a group of British tourists was arrested in Greece and charged with spying.

• 9 mins

Saving Orphaned African Elephants

How a Kenyan woman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, first raised orphaned baby African elephants

• 9 mins

The Concordski Crash

A fateful day in the race to develop the first supersonic passenger plane.

• 11 mins

The Abduction of Mehdi Ben Barka

In 1965 a Moroccan disappeared from the streets of Paris. His body has never been found.

• 11 mins

The Silk Letters Movement

In 1916 the authorities in India uncovered plans to overthrow British rule

• 9 mins

The 1948 French Miners' Strike

How coal miners in France went from post-war heroes to pariahs

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The Bugging of the US Embassy in Moscow

How the Soviets hid hi-tech bugs deep inside the walls of the new US embassy in Moscow.

• 11 mins

The Assassination of the Mirabal Sisters

3 sisters in the Dominican Republic were beaten to death on the orders of the dictator

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A Black GI in China

How did a black American soldier end up living a privileged life in communist China?

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Car Safety and Ralph Nader

In the early 1960s there were virtually no laws covering car safety in the USA.

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The Imprisonment of Irina Ratushinskaya

The dissident poet spent four years in Soviet prisons and labour camps.

• 11 mins

The US School Bible Controversy

How a schoolboy challenged the practice of daily Bible reading in US schools - and won.

• 11 mins

India's City of the Future: Chandigarh

World famous architect Le Corbusier built a city to revive Indian pride after Partition.

• 9 mins

The Capture of Abimael Guzman

Tracking down Peru's public enemy number one, leader of the Maoist Shining Path rebels.

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Colombia's 'Lost City'

In 1976, archaeologists found the ruins of a huge indigenous settlement hidden in forest

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The Attica Prison Riot

One man's memories of a very public siege in a high security jail in the USA.

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Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt

In December 1976 gunmen tried to kill the legendary reggae singer at his home in Jamaica.

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Digging up the Truth

Mercedes Doretti has spent her life uncovering mass graves around the world.

• 9 mins

Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot

Yelena Malyutina was a Soviet female bomber pilot who fought in WW2.

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Wangari Maathai Wins Nobel Prize

In 2004, the Kenyan ecologist became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

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Recreating Down Syndrome in Mice

Scientist Elizabeth Fisher created a new strain of mouse to help understand Down Syndrome

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Fighting for Rural Women in South Africa

Sizani Ngubane set up the Rural Women's Movement in South Africa in the 1990s

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Yoyes - Woman leader of ETA

The life and tragic death of the first woman leader of the Basque separatist group ETA.

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Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan

A young Jewish woman escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania to fight the Nazis.

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The Hindu 'Milk Miracle'

Millions of Hindus were gripped by reports of their God, Ganesha, 'drinking' milk.

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Cot Death

The 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched in 1991 to prevent babies dying in their cots

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The First Latin American 'Telenovela'

Brazil's Vida Alves starred in the first ever Latin American soap opera in December 1951.

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