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The war in Transnistria

How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic

The Soviet James Bond

BBC World Svc

The book that predicted an end to civilisation

The Grand Hotel Bombing

Lenin and the deadly mushrooms

The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

The businessman who defied the Italian Mafia

Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution

Witness History

BBC World Service

The Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes anti-racist exercise

How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams

The Chinese cure for malaria

The origin of the WHO

Introducing The Bomb

Discovery

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