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Mexican history: A love song and a gas explosion	The History Hour	60:14
Belgium’s royal affair and Montenegro gains independence	The History Hour	60:21
The first reality game show and a joik performance on Eurovision	The History Hour	60:41
Sir David Attenborough's first Zoo Quest and a WW2 sabotage mission in Norway	The History Hour	60:50
The world’s first perfume archive and Dutch car-free Sundays in the global oil crisis	The History Hour	60:49
Cleaning up Chernobyl and Canada’s war in the woods	The History Hour	60:48
Winning the Booker Prize and discovering a lost fairytale	The History Hour	60:48
Hitler’s teeth and the Leaning Tower of Pisa	The History Hour	60:15
The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant	The History Hour	60:32
A papal visit and German reunification	The History Hour	60:30
The 'Cyprus Emergency’ and India’s nuclear mango deal	The History Hour	60:29
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca	The History Hour	60:46
Sweden and the USA's diplomatic freeze and Elvis in the UK	The History Hour	61:40
Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III	The History Hour	59:57
The Shetland Bus and toxic shock syndrome	The History Hour	60:12
Italian history	The History Hour	60:38
Creating Mr Men and the Austrian wine scandal	The History Hour	61:26
Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy	The History Hour	60:37
The priest behind a new airport and Agatha Christie	The History Hour	59:49
The birth of the modern fitted kitchen and the creation of Cluedo	The History Hour	60:14
The House of the Spirits and Tracey Emin's unmade bed	The History Hour	61:13
The American Freedom Train and the invention of text messaging	The History Hour	60:30
The history of toys	The History Hour	61:11
Norway’s sushi contribution and Laurel and Hardy’s Christmas	The History Hour	60:48
Banky's 'Dismaland' and the Paris climate agreement	The History Hour	60:55
Nigerian history	The History Hour	60:19
Literary hoaxes and an underground cathedral	The History Hour	61:21
Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain and ending the Bosnian war	The History Hour	60:50
Speed of Sound and prosecuting Nazis	The History Hour	61:38
The largest dinosaur and creating Miffy	The History Hour	60:26
Emerante de Pradines and Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds	The History Hour	60:19
Music producer Sonny Roberts and treating diabetes	The History Hour	60:48
Nordic Noir and the Moomins	The History Hour	60:03
The evacuation of Tristan da Cunha and Japan surrenders to China at the end of World War Two	The History Hour	59:50
India's nine day tea strike and the birth of the Excel spreadsheet	The History Hour	59:20
The origins of Indian cinema and the start of Scouting	The History Hour	60:00
The fight against sexual harassment in Egypt and Omar Sharif enters the world stage	The History Hour	59:58
Nigeria’s Festac’77 and Gander’s generosity during 9/11	The History Hour	60:31
The Chindits and USAID	The History Hour	60:31
Washington DC and a film noir classic	The History Hour	60:02

Mexican history: A love song and a gas explosion

The History Hour

60:14

Belgium’s royal affair and Montenegro gains independence

The History Hour

60:21

The first reality game show and a joik performance on Eurovision

The History Hour

60:41

Sir David Attenborough's first Zoo Quest and a WW2 sabotage mission in Norway

The History Hour

60:50