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Explaining autism

One scientist's ground-breaking work that revolutionised our understanding of autism

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Britain's World War Two crime wave

How criminals from looters to con artists thrived in London during the Blitz.

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The book that changed the way we eat

The book that highlighted the health and environmental benefits of a plant based diet

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Risking my life to protect Congo's forest

How a conservationist tried to protect Congo's rainforest during the country's civil war.

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The Gwangju massacre

The South Korean army crushed a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju on 27 May 1980

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Winston Churchill's doctor

Winston Churchill's personal doctor published his memories of the British leader in 1966

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Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer

Ann Lowe designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress but for years few people knew her name

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The start of eco-tourism

How Costa Rica's Monteverde cloud forest reserve became a major tourist site

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The Zanzibar Revolution

Just one month after gaining independence there was an uprising in Zanzibar in 1964.

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How Christo wrapped the Reichstag

The artist who delighted post-Cold War Berlin by wrapping its greatest monument

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The origin of the WHO

How the cold war helped shape the creation of the WHO and what role China played.

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The portable defibrillator

How Northern Irish doctor Frank Pantridge revolutionised heart-attack treatment.

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Brown v the Board of Education

A landmark case about racial segregation in the USA.

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The 16th Street church bombing

Four young black girls were killed in a racist attack on a church in Alabama in 1963

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Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western

How an all-black college team overturned racist assumptions about basketball in the USA

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Rodney King and the LA riots

People rioted in Los Angeles after police who had assaulted a black man were acquitted

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Three Strikes Law

One man's experience of the controversial US law that saw thousands locked up for life

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Elisabeth K眉bler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief

The remarkable Swiss psychiatrist who changed the way we think about dying.

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Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution

Chairman Mao banned all classical music in 1966, but some musicians defied the order.

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Sex trafficking and peacekeepers

Whistle-blowers implicated UN peacekeepers in sex trafficking in Bosnia in the late 90s

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The friendship train

The passenger train service between India and Bangladesh was resumed after 43 years.

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The 鈥楤lue Eyes/Brown Eyes鈥� anti-racist exercise

A teacher decided to separate pupils according to eye colour to teach them about racism.

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The New Deal

How the USA used public spending projects to battle through the Great Depression

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South Korea's economic miracle

How a poor, war-ravaged nation became a global economic powerhouse

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Tanzania's socialist experiment

In the 1960s Tanzania tried out a new form of socialism called Ujamaa

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The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys'

Thinkers trained in free-market economics in Chicago shaped Chile after its military coup

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Russia鈥檚 bitter taste of capitalism

Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the sudden market reforms of early 1992.

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Jana Andolan 鈥� Nepal鈥檚 people power movement

A people鈥檚 movement brought an end to Nepal鈥檚 absolute monarchy in 1990.

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The Rolling Stones drugs trial

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went on trial for drugs offences in June 1967

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Quarantined in a TB sanatorium

The life of a nine-year-old girl quarantined in a TB sanatorium for 4 years in the 1950s

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