S2.E18 ∙ Episode #2.18

With the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi 'Freedom Summer' approaching, and the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act also on the horizon, Dirt & Deeds In Mississippi is the timely untold story of how the Black landowners of Mississippi became the secret weapon of the American civil rights movement of the 1960's. Against tremendous odds, In the early 60's Blacks still retained title to over a million acres of land in Mississippi but were still being denied the right to vote. Dirt & Deeds is the revelatory account of how that land was used as a vital resource in the fight for freedom. Dirt & Deeds is the real story behind the Hollywood film 'Mississippi Burning'. Danny Glover has agreed to be the narrator.

To mark the centenary of the Balkan Wars, 'Silent Balkans' explores how after the fall of the Ottoman Empire ethnic nationalism destroyed the previous peaceful coexistence of Balkan peoples now eager to fight over liberated territories.

The discovery a 4.4 million-year-old Ardipithecus skeleton rewrites the story of human evolution and provides strong evidence that bipedality is the oldest defining characteristic of human ancestors.

The rise of the disability rights movement in the USA, UK and Australia.

The banality of evil - described from the East German everyday perspective where the Party and the Stasi ran amok.

A compelling documentary of musicians, who every Tuesday come together to conduct an old Irish tradition, a session. This is the story of human connection through an old Irish tradition.