Ladysmith Black Mambazo

How working with Paul Simon made South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo global stars.

• 10 mins

Bay of Pigs Invasion

A Cuban exile tells how he and several hundred others tried to overthrow Fidel Castro.

• 15 mins

New York Blackout

It is 35 years since the streets of the Big Apple were plunged into darkness.

• 10 mins

The Murder of Versace

In July 1997 the Italian fashion designer, Gianni Versace, was shot dead.

• 9 mins

Miguel Angel Blanco

How the killing of a young Basque councillor sparked huge anti-ETA protests in Spain.

• 10 mins

CIA mind control experiments

Beginning in the 1950s the CIA made attempts to brainwash psychiatric patients.

• 9 mins

The arrest of Jack Mapanje

It is 25 years since the poet was imprisoned without trial in Malawi.

• 10 mins

Life in the Warsaw Ghetto

Janina Dawidowicz survived the Warsaw Ghetto as a child during World War Two.

• 14 mins

Roosevelt in the Amazon

How the American president Theodore Roosevelt nearly died in the Amazon in 1914.

• 10 mins

The first IVF baby

In July 1978 the first baby to be conceived in a laboratory was born in England.

• 9 mins

The Death of Evita Peron

It is 60 years since the Argentine first lady died.

• 9 mins

The Farewell dossier

How a mole in the KGB sent secrets to France and the USA in 1981.

• 9 mins

Womad

It is 30 years since the first Womad - world music festival- in England.

• 9 mins

The GI who chose China

At the end of the Korean War, 21 American prisoners chose not to go home to the USA.

• 15 mins

Megan's law

Eighteen years ago a little girl was raped and murdered - her killing changed US law.

• 9 mins

The Battle of Passchendaele

It was one of the defining battles of the First World War

• 9 mins

USS Nautilus: Under the North Pole

The first voyage to the North Pole under the icecap. Ken Carr remembers Nautilus's mission

• 9 mins

The Kon-Tiki adventure

The story of Thor Heyerdahl's crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki.

• 9 mins

The Death of Marilyn Monroe

It's 50 years since the death of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's ultimate sex symbol.

• 9 mins

Water polo and the 1956 Hungarian uprising

How a water polo match came to symbolise Hungary's fight for freedom from Soviet rule.

• 15 mins

Omarska concentration camp

The story of a survivor of Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia.

• 9 mins

Bering Strait Swimmer

How an American swimmer crossed the "Ice Curtain" between the USA and the Soviet Union.

• 10 mins

Twenty-five years of Botox

It's quarter of a century since the world's most popular cosmetic treatment was discovered

• 9 mins

Abebe Bikila the barefoot runner

At the 1960 Olympics in Rome an Ethiopian athlete stunned the world.

• 9 mins

The Plot To Kill Franco

The Scottish anarchist and the plot to kill General Franco.

• 10 mins

The Battle for Mount Longdon

An Argentine soldier and a British soldier tell their stories of the Falklands War.

• 14 mins

The Founding of Napster

Shawn Fanning talks about how he founded the file sharing website Napster.

• 10 mins

US Occupation of Japan

For six years following the end of World War II, Japan was occupied by the US.

• 9 mins

The Last Viceroy of India

The daughter of the last British viceroy in India remembers the transfer of power in 1947.

• 10 mins

Elvis - The Comeback Special

How a 1968 television special revived the career of the King of Rock and Roll.

• 10 mins