The story of the 20th Century, by those who were there at the era's most important moments
World Service,·283 episodes
"It's a very combative environment" says Robert Rigg of London's finance district
25 Apr 1999,·4 mins
"I dream about clean work, free from oppression, free from exploitation"
29 Apr 1999,·4 mins
Paul Batin arrived at the Ford Motor plant in Detroit as a young boy in 1927
30 Apr 1999,·4 mins
Angelina and her daughter Irene from Costa Rica compare their childbirth experiences
04 May 1999,·4 mins
Julia talks about adopting her children Iris, Hazel, Ivy and Ike from China and Vietnam
Michel Odent introduced the concept of birthing pools in French hospitals
"The stress stays with you right through to the very end, but it's worth it"
Former Mossad agent Hermann Arndt on his part in finding Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann
14 May 1999,·4 mins
Ruth Goldberg was denounced as a left-wing activist when she stood for the PTA election
15 May 1999,·4 mins
Bob Grove describes a psychiatric colony which resembled an 18th Century 'madhouse'
17 May 1999,·4 mins,·
"If I want to do something worthwhile I must go to work with faith healers"
17 May 1999,·4 mins
US author Elizabeth Wurtzel talks about her depression and Prozac's effect on her
Pierre-Celestine Rusengatabaro describes the psychological trauma of surviving
Freud believed that neurotic illness was caused by repressing painful memories
17 May 1999,·3 mins
A covert co-operation to arrest people considered to be activists in 1970s Latin America
18 May 1999,·4 mins
The secretive world of spies and state security systems of the 20th Century
19 May 1999,·28 mins
"All spies were doing the same thing. Quite often spies gave each other information"
20 May 1999,·4 mins
Blamed for the deaths of 50,000 men, she was famous for her seductions and pillow talk
24 May 1999,·4 mins
The movement that sought to bring about violent change throughout Chinese society
26 May 1999,·4 mins
The symbol of the Nazis, with roots in mythology, the swastika is now banned in Germany
The 20th Century's symbol of destruction
Helen Steel and Dave Morris reflect on what fast food branding means to them
What Mickey Mouse means to John Hench, the man who spent his life drawing him
Mickey Mouse, the swastika, the atomic mushroom cloud, McDonalds' golden arches and Mao
31 May 1999,·26 mins
Millicent Obaso works as a reproductive health officer across 14 countries
01 Jun 1999,·4 mins
Xia Li Qin accepts China's one child policy and doesn't know anyone who has more than one
How simple medicines saved Hytham Abdel Ma'soud's life when he got acute diarrhoea
Siriwat Wittikun made millions investing in the Thai stock market but he lost it all
From divorce to traditional values, from being an only child to modern parenting
01 Jun 1999,·28 mins
Rohan Ponniah compares his father's role to his own experience of parenting
