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The Battle of the Somme

First-hand accounts from the BBC archive of the horrific WW1 battle, plus forced sterilisation in Peru, London's Great Plague of 1665, Ukraine's wartime ultra-nationalists and the US river that caught fire.
Photo: British soldiers advance during the Battle of the Somme, September 1916 (PA)

50 minutes

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Mon 4 Jul 201603:06GMT
BBC World Service Australasia

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