The story of the 20th Century, by those who were there at the era's most important moments
World Service,·283 episodes
"Apartheid was all pervasive" – Dr Fazel Randera on South Africa's human rights abuses
03 Feb 1999,·4 mins
Noreen Hill on how her husband was severely injured at the Remembrance Day bombing
04 Feb 1999,·4 mins
Maureen describes her life before the pill and how it changed when she started to take it
12 Feb 1999,·4 mins
Kiharu Nakamura talks about becoming a high class entertainer in Japan
"When I discovered I was HIV positive, I knew life had to go on"
Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard travelled 11,000 metres to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
18 Feb 1999,·4 mins
Sue and Victoria Riches were the first British women to walk to the North Pole
Bungee pioneer AJ Hackett on how he made the extreme sport popular around the world.
"Disability really hasn't prevented me from doing anything at all."
The American pilot Fay Gillis Wells remembers her friend and fellow aviator Amelia Earhart
How sexual attitudes changed over the 20th Century for the good - and not so good
22 Feb 1999,·28 mins
Roger Bannister remembers the May evening in 1954 when he ran a mile in four minutes
01 Mar 1999,·4 mins
Nawal el Moutawakel remembers the race that won her Olympic gold in 1984 for 400m hurdles
02 Mar 1999,·4 mins
Accounts of people whose exploits and explorations pushed them to the limits of endurance
03 Mar 1999,·28 mins
Cricketer Brian Lara on making 375 runs for the West Indies against England
03 Mar 1999,·4 mins
Jesse Owens won the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and the long jump at the 1936 Olympics
05 Mar 1999,·4 mins
Hong Kong's old airport Kai Tak, nostalgically remembered by pilot Jim Eckers
08 Mar 1999,·4 mins
The iconic Manhattan skyscraper was designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Bafana Khumalo takes us on a tour of Sandtown City, the largest shopping mall in Africa
Architect Adel Fahmy onn using natural building materials to construct domes and vaults
Ivor Smith was one of the architects behind the Park Hill estate in Sheffield
Audeh Rantisi on being exiled to the West Bank in July 1948
09 Mar 1999,·4 mins
Farah Pahlavi, the Shah's wife on living elsewhere, from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas
Architecture and its development - how building design changed over the 20th Century
09 Mar 1999,·28 mins
"Our freedom is such a precious thing for us in South Africa"
12 Mar 1999,·4 mins
Kiran Bedi converted Tihar jail into a place of reformation - an ashram
Netiva Ben Yehu joined the Jewish underground to fight against the British and the Arabs
13 Mar 1999,·3 mins
Protests, hunger strikes, sleep deprivation and prison were endured by suffragettes
13 Mar 1999,·4 mins
Remembering Stalin, the French Resistance, underwater photography and the Bloomsbury Group
14 Mar 1999,·28 mins
Patients and professionals talk about the mental health issues that have affected them
15 Mar 1999,·28 mins
