1996: How the World Sounded the Year You Were Born
The meaning of a Bar Mitzvah, saving Amazon forests and a trip down the Mississippi
End of the Berlin Wall - 1989—Moments That Changed Our World
The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War. Why was it put up? And what brought it down?
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Finding the sleep switch—Discovery
Sleep and the mysteries of the master switching centre of the brain
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Population Growth—A Green History of the Planet
Humans represent the most dramatic biological event ever to have occurred on the planet
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Mesopotomia—Civilisation
The invention of writing. Sumerian's revolutionary representation of the sounds of words
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Caring for Peru's Amazon Forests—The Farming World
Peruvian Amazon forest under threat from incoming farmers as well as loggers and ranchers
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Trip down the Mississippi—Walston goes Walkabout
A barge trip down the Mississippi with Oliver Walston
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Radiation—Bluffer's Guide To Science
What is radiation and how it can be both beneficial and harmful?
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Bar Mitzvah - Jewish—Words of Faith
The history and meaning of the coming of age ceremony for Jewish boys
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The Richest Mine in the World—Talkabout Africa
Digging up history in one of Ghana's profitable gold mines.
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Cuba's Economy—Assignment
The Cuban economy under Fidel Castro
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