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705 - Norway's teacher resistance and Ireland's deadly nightclub fire

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705 - Norway's teacher resistance and Ireland's deadly nightclub fire

Sat, 19 Sep 2026
704 - The mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry and surviving 9/11

Sat, 12 Sep 2026
703 - E.T. the Extra Terrestrial and the creator of Star Wars toys

Sun, 06 Sep 2026
702 - Voting for water and surviving a hurricane

Sat, 29 Aug 2026
701 - The battle of Mandalay and the New World screwworm

Sat, 22 Aug 2026
700 - The Mau Mau uprising and man-eating lions

Sat, 15 Aug 2026
699 - Taiwan's White Terror and the making of City of God

Sat, 08 Aug 2026
698 - The first Comic Con and making Oasis’ Wonderwall

Sat, 01 Aug 2026
697 - Solar-powered flight and the Crazy Horse Memorial

Sat, 25 Jul 2026
696 - The Spanish Civil War and the Birkin bag

Sat, 18 Jul 2026
695 - Buildings of power and the Dada art movement

Sat, 11 Jul 2026
694 - The return of Chief Long Wolf and The Statue of Liberty's facelift

Fri, 03 Jul 2026
693 - The Slip Slop Slap campaign and the Brexit referendum

Sat, 27 Jun 2026
692 - An uprising in South Africa and an exodus in the Caucasus

Fri, 19 Jun 2026
691 - Belgium’s royal affair and Montenegro gains independence

Sat, 23 May 2026
690 - Opening the archives: A cellist, a playwright and a king

Sat, 13 Jun 2026
689 - The creation of Inspector Montalbano and Australia's first Big Thing

Sat, 06 Jun 2026
688 - Mexican history: A love song and a gas explosion

Sat, 30 May 2026
686 - The first reality game show and a joik performance on Eurovision

Sat, 16 May 2026
685 - Sir David Attenborough's first Zoo Quest and a WW2 sabotage mission in Norway

Sat, 09 May 2026
684 - The world’s first perfume archive and Dutch car-free Sundays in the global oil crisis

Fri, 01 May 2026
683 - Cleaning up Chernobyl and Canada’s war in the woods

Sat, 25 Apr 2026
682 - Winning the Booker Prize and discovering a lost fairytale

Sat, 18 Apr 2026
681 - Hitler’s teeth and the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Sat, 11 Apr 2026
680 - The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant

Sat, 04 Apr 2026
679 - A papal visit and German reunification

Sat, 28 Mar 2026
678 - The 'Cyprus Emergency’ and India’s nuclear mango deal

Sat, 21 Mar 2026
677 - Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

Sat, 14 Mar 2026
676 - Sweden and the USA's diplomatic freeze and Elvis in the UK

Sat, 07 Mar 2026
675 - Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III

Sat, 28 Feb 2026
674 - The Shetland Bus and toxic shock syndrome

Sat, 21 Feb 2026
673 - Italian history

Sat, 14 Feb 2026
672 - Creating Mr Men and the Austrian wine scandal

Sat, 07 Feb 2026
671 - Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy

Sat, 31 Jan 2026
670 - The priest behind a new airport and Agatha Christie

Sat, 24 Jan 2026
669 - The birth of the modern fitted kitchen and the creation of Cluedo

Sat, 17 Jan 2026
668 - The House of the Spirits and Tracey Emin's unmade bed

Sat, 10 Jan 2026
667 - The American Freedom Train and the invention of text messaging

Sat, 03 Jan 2026
666 - The history of toys

Sat, 27 Dec 2025
665 - Norway’s sushi contribution and Laurel and Hardy’s Christmas

Sat, 20 Dec 2025
664 - Banky's 'Dismaland' and the Paris climate agreement

Sat, 13 Dec 2025
662 - Nigerian history

Sat, 06 Dec 2025
661 - Literary hoaxes and an underground cathedral

Sat, 29 Nov 2025
660 - Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain and ending the Bosnian war

Sat, 22 Nov 2025
659 - Speed of Sound and prosecuting Nazis

Sat, 15 Nov 2025
658 - The largest dinosaur and creating Miffy

Sat, 08 Nov 2025
657 - Emerante de Pradines and Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds

Sat, 01 Nov 2025
656 - Music producer Sonny Roberts and treating diabetes

Sat, 25 Oct 2025
655 - Nordic Noir and the Moomins

Sat, 18 Oct 2025
654 - The evacuation of Tristan da Cunha and Japan surrenders to China at the end of World War Two

Fri, 10 Oct 2025

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