The Romanian revolution

The History Hour - A podcast by BBC World Service - Saturdays

In this edition the fall of the Ceaușescus in Romania in December 1989, a global panic over bees in the early 2000s and WW2 black GIs finally recognised decades after the war. Plus the building of Abuja as Nigeria's capital and a woman's right to pray in some Hindu temples in India.(Photo: The army join the revolutionaries in Romania 1989. Credit: Getty Images)