Episodes

  • Ep. 1: World War II Ghost Army
    Jun 7 2018

    On September 21st 1944, a top secret unit altered the course of World War Two. 101-year-old Gilbert Seltzer, an officer in the "ghost army", tells his story.

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    29 mins
  • Ep. 2: Stuxnet: The Day That Revolutionised Cyberwarfare
    Jun 7 2018

    On July 12th 2010 cyber security expert Eric Chien uncovered a leaked cyberworm that would have a profound impact on the nature of cybercrime.

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    25 mins
  • Ep. 3: The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
    Jun 7 2018

    On November 16th 1968 a demonstration at the Olympics in Mexico City took the US civil rights movement to a global stage. Sprinter Lee Evans, who was in the stadium that day, tells the story.

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    21 mins
  • Ep. 4: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
    Jun 7 2018

    On August 4th 1964 an incident involving a US battleship in the Gulf of Tonkin launched America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Whistle blower Daniel Ellsberg, who started work at The Pentagon that day, tells the story.

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    24 mins
  • Ep. 5: The First Spacewalk
    Jun 7 2018

    On 18th March 1965, the first human walked in space. Broadcast live on TV, it very nearly ended in disaster. Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov tells his story.

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    27 mins
  • Ep. 6: The Battle of Cable Street
    Jun 7 2018

    On 4th October 1936, hundreds of people from London’s East End protested against Oswald Mosely and the UK’s growing fascist movement. One of the very few living veterans, 99 year old Ubby Cowan, tells his story.

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    27 mins
  • Ep. 7: The Buddhas of Bamiyan
    Jun 7 2018

    On 1st March 2001, two giant, standing Buddhas carved into sandstone cliffs in the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan, were destroyed. A local man, who was forced by the Taliban to help with the destruction, tells his story.

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    23 mins
  • Ep. 8: Chernobyl
    Jun 7 2018

    On 26th April 1986 a series of explosions at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant sent radioactive material drifting across the Soviet Union and beyond. Lyubov Kovalevskaya, was in Chernobyl that day tells her story.

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    28 mins