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30/12/2019

Our favourite stories this year. We go back to mission control in Houston for the moon landing and look at the radical equal rights laws for women in 1950s Tunisia.

Presented by Razia Iqbal. Five extraordinary moments in history as told by people who were there. This month, our favourite stories this year. We go back to mission control in Houston for the moon landing, the radical equal rights laws for women in 1950s Tunisia, the first African in the Arctic, the Kindertransport children sent to the UK by their parents before World War II and the birth of communism in China.

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