The story of the 20th Century, by those who were there at the era's most important moments
World Service,·283 episodes
Women who have made their mark on the 20th Century from a prison reformer to a suffragette
21 Mar 1999,·28 mins
How stardom has helped Shabana Azmi make films that challenge traditional attitudes
24 Mar 1999,·4 mins
Stanley Forman filmed world events to show what war really meant for ordinary people
"I'd never seen a building with tiles. I'd been living in a village in a round hut"
Portraying injustice a theme of Jean Marie Teno's films. It's got him into trouble
Ray Harryhausen was inspired to become an animator when watching King Kong in 1933
Ed Koch encouraged people to "walk over" the bridges that connect New York's islands
29 Mar 1999,·3 mins
Hans Bethe on the most influential branch of physics to have emerged in the 20th Century
29 Mar 1999,·4 mins
The Finnish city's festival of light is cheering when it's dark for six months of the year
The original manuscript is strewn with notations, calculations - and errors
The complexities of real life - from weather patterns or the changes in world markets
Naila Zaman Khan sung to raise the spirits of refugees fleeing east Pakistan
31 Mar 1999,·4 mins
Dolores Ibarruri won her fame with her fiery oratory rallying the anti-fascist forces
Why earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur, and why and how mountains form
01 Apr 1999,·4 mins
Japan's capital city generates 4 million tonnes of waste a year. How is it disposed of?
07 Apr 1999,·4 mins
Scientific discoveries of the 20th Century: Einstein, quantum mechanics and DNA
07 Apr 1999,·28 mins
Elizabeth Fisher on her work attempting to find genes involved in neurological diseases
Aged seven, Vera Broido accompanied her mother in exile to Western Siberia
09 Apr 1999,·4 mins
Rejected by family - Meenakshi Sundriyal from an upper class caste and Muslim Khurshid Ali
The use of anti-rejection drugs has made human organ transplants possible
Experiences of exile: from Iran, Palestine, Russia, Chile - and from family
09 Apr 1999,·28 mins
Good food and rest was the only treatment for patients with infections before the 1940s
Christina Navarrete recalls the sadness at being forced to leave Chile - and her family
Helped by Miles Davis and Harry Belafonte - Hugh Masekela had a hit with Stimela
14 Apr 1999,·4 mins
Andres Castillo Berna took Fidel Castro to a cafe and they talked for hours
15 Apr 1999,·4 mins
Ukrainian Vladimir Titarev on how miners used to be the heroes of the Soviet State
20 Apr 1999,·4 mins
A Russian miner, an Indonesian garment worker, City trader and a Ford plant worker
21 Apr 1999,·28 mins
Property consultant or salaryman, Hitoshi Iemura describes his job in Tokyo
21 Apr 1999,·4 mins
What it was like to build cities, govern them but most importantly to live in them
23 Apr 1999,·28 mins
Brasilia became Brazil's capital in 1960. Oscar Niemeyer was commissioned to build it
23 Apr 1999,·4 mins
