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Michael Jackson's Thriller

The release of the world's best-selling album, the death of a WW2 hero, and Beagle 2

• 45 mins

The Challenger Disaster

The launch of space shuttle Challenger goes horribly wrong, Sharia in Nigeria, and Batman.

• 50 mins

Prozac

The birth of the Prozac generation, saving ancient Afghan artworks, plus a Disney classic

• 50 mins

The Battle of Verdun

The battle that traumatised France, forbidden Tibet in the 1940s and fashion's New Look

• 50 mins

The Original Revolutionary Feminist

Feminism in the 20th century, poisoning in the Balkans, and a miscarriage of justice

• 50 mins

Remembering Chernobyl

Remembering Chernobyl, Charles Darwin and the McCarthy era, plus 60s icon, the Mini

• 50 mins

The Thalidomide Trial

German drugs company goes on trial; Hands Across America; the execution of Anne Boleyn.

• 50 mins

Tanzania's Ujamaa

Socialism in Tanzania, assassination in the Caribbean, the Concordski crash and Date Rape

• 50 mins

First CIA coup in Latin America

America's fight against communism; giant China earthquake; riots in Liverpool; Picasso.

• 50 mins

The University of Texas Shooting

The first campus killings in the US; an arts festival in Lebanon; meeting JD Salinger

• 39 mins

The Mayak Nuclear Disaster

A nuclear disaster, America's worst prison riot, World War Two internment and apartheid

• 50 mins

Shell Shock

The psychiatric cost of WW1; Hungary's 1956 uprising, Marvel Comics and London's Big Bang

• 55 mins

Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter

The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.

• 50 mins

The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial

Alleged sex abuse on a remote island, a controversial Kurdish song, men versus computers

• 50 mins

The Dili Massacre

Horror in East Timor, book-burning in Britain and the birth of the James Bond theme tune.

• 50 mins

The 1948 French Miners' Strike

How coal miners in post-war France went from being seen as heroes, to pariahs.

• 50 mins

Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt

The shooting of Bob Marley, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, Colombia's Lost City

• 50 mins

100 Women History Hour

A special edition of the programme remembering women that history has overlooked.

• 49 mins

Yoyes, ETA's female icon

The death of a Basque fighter, resisting the Nazis in Lithuania, and a Hindu milk miracle

• 50 mins

Death of an Anarchist

The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett and flying to the moon

• 50 mins

The Break-Up of the Soviet Union

Key players in the fall of the USSR recall the momentous events of December 1991

• 50 mins

American Communists

American Communists, gun-toting children in Albania and death and forgiveness in Ecuador.

• 50 mins

Princess Diana's Minefield Walk

A royal visit boosts landmine campaigners, Turkey's headscarf pioneer and spying in WW1

• 50 mins

Roots - The TV Series

Slavery on US TV, peace in El Salvador, Hrant Dink's murder; and Dungeons and Dragons.

• 50 mins

The Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Indigenous rights in Australia, the invention of the microwave, and Desert Island Discs.

• 50 mins

The End of Apartheid

Former South African police minister talks apartheid, Black Hawk Down and a polar record

• 50 mins

Sanctuary Cities in the USA

US safe havens for undocumented immigrants, a killer killer whale, DNA, and a Kenyan hit.

• 50 mins

Love and Marriage

From speed-dating to gay romance, from divorce to chastity, recent changes in love.

• 50 mins

The German American Bund

Nazis in 1930s America; Slobodan Milosevic on trial; attacks on Denmark's Little Mermaid.

• 50 mins

Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint

Life with Mother Teresa, the birth of Nollywood and Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House.

• 50 mins