Australia's Rabbit Plague

How Australia battled a plague of rabbits which was destroying its agricultural economy.

• 15 mins

Eichmann in Argentina

In 1960, leading Nazi Adolf Eichmann was abducted in Argentina and smuggled to Israel.

• 14 mins

Iran's Cultural Revolution

How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups

• 9 mins

The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

In July 1945, the American warship was torpedoed in the shark-infested Pacific Ocean.

• 9 mins

James Salter: Writer and Pilot

The acclaimed American author recalls his time as a US fighter pilot during the Korean War

• 15 mins

Poison Gas in WW1

Soldiers who witnessed gas attacks recount their experiences in archive recordings

• 9 mins

Ghiggia: Uruguay’s World Cup Hero

Alcides Ghiggia scored a famous goal for Uruguay in a match at Brazil’s Maracana stadium

• 9 mins

The Death of Walter Rodney

In 1980, the Guyanese opposition leader Dr Walter Rodney was killed in a bomb explosion.

• 15 mins

The Inuit Children Experiment

Helen Thiesen recalls being taken from her family in Greenland and sent to live in Denmark

• 15 mins

The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes

A look at the destruction of southern Iraq's great marshes, overseen by Saddam Hussein.

• 15 mins

The Guinness Book of Records

The first edition of one of the world's best-selling books was published in August 1955.

• 9 mins

Hurricane Katrina

In August 2005 a massive hurricane hit the city of New Orleans in the USA.

• 9 mins

Uri Geller and the Bending Spoon

In 1976, a US magazine tested a psychic's claim that he could bend metal with his mind.

• 9 mins

The Auschwitz Cellist

How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.

• 9 mins

Russia's First DJ

Russia's first radio DJ, Seva Novgorodsev, went on air at the height of the Cold War

• 9 mins

The Heyday of Somali Music

The remarkable story of Maryam Mursal, one of the superstars of 1970s Somali music .

• 9 mins

The King of Highlife

E.T Mensah's Highlife music took Africa by storm in the 1950s

• 9 mins

Noel Coward Plays Vegas

The English singer, actor and playwright was invited to do a show in Las Vegas

• 9 mins

The Monkees

The Monkees were the world's first 'manufactured' boy band - created especially for TV.

• 10 mins

Musicians of the Iranian Revolution

In 1978, Iran's top musicians took a stand against the Monarchy

• 9 mins

The Leningrad Symphony

In 1942 starving musicians in besieged Leningrad performed Shostakovich's Symphony

• 9 mins

The Disappearing Sea

In 1990, the first international conference was held on the shrinking of the Aral Sea

• 9 mins

Sri Lanka Killings

In 1995 during Sri Lanka's brutal civil war Tamil rebels attacked a Sinhalese village.

• 9 mins

Iceland's Women Strike

In October 1975, 90% of all women in Iceland took part in a massive nationwide protest

• 9 mins

The birth of the United Nations

In October 1945, the United Nations was born, in the hope of preventing future wars

• 9 mins

The Nuclear Spy Alan Nunn May

In 1945 the English physicist was exposed as a nuclear spy for the Soviet Union.

• 9 mins

The First Lady of Cuban Ballet

World-famous prima ballerina Alicia Alonso talks about founding Cuba's National Ballet

• 9 mins

The Great Depression: Harry Leslie Smith Remembers

Harry Leslie Smith grew up in England during the Great Depression of the 1930s

• 9 mins

A Jewish Homeland in Siberia

In 1930 the USSR created a Jewish Region in Siberia, a homeland for Soviet Jews

• 9 mins

The Jarrow Crusade

In 1936 men from the North of England marched to London to protest at mass unemployment.

• 9 mins