The story of the 20th Century, by those who were there at the era's most important moments
World Service,·283 episodes
Pekka Aikio is a member of a group that have traditionally lived by herding reindeer
27 Aug 1999,·4 mins
Cecil Dickson was taken away from his parents when he was just four years old
01 Sep 1999,·4 mins
Simon Charles is part of a community who still lives by hunting and gathering
The mini skirt, the blackshirt, the headscarf, Gambian dressmaking and a bride-to-be
05 Sep 1999,·28 mins
Joanna Roberts remembers the endless hours that women spent doing the weekly laundry
06 Sep 1999,·4 mins
The 20th Century through the eyes of the world's indigenous people
06 Sep 1999,·28 mins
Translators, adopting English, storytellers and endangered languages
10 Sep 1999,·28 mins
Mahfoudha Alley Hamid remembers in a potent combination of pain and pleasure
10 Sep 1999,·3 mins
Photojournalism, altering photos in Soviet times and a family photo album
Bob Geldof organised Live Aid concert to raise money for famine victims in Ethiopia
10 Sep 1999,·4 mins
Angela Berners Wilson was one of the first to be ordained in the Church of England
16 Sep 1999,·4 mins
Johanen Eickhoff on how becoming more observant means he has gained a life of spirituality
Kazuo Chiba talks about the Japanese Emperor and the worship of him as a deity
Liberation theology, growing up with Soviet atheism and the divine emperor in Japan
16 Sep 1999,·28 mins
Dovie Thomason tries to find truths from stories that are universal for any era
29 Sep 1999,·4 mins
"It's a language of upward mobility. It's a language of opportunity"
Hugh Lunghi describes interpreting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
High in the Caucasus mountains of Azerbaijan is the village of Khinalig where speaker Anver Mamedov is the schoolmaster. Mamedov is aware that times are changing and is worried that the Khinalig language spoken only in this village will not survive.
Sandra Gallina talks about making sure that the representatives understand each other
How the origins of man and planet Earth have developed over the 20th Century
29 Sep 1999,·28 mins
Bob Wilson on how the universe was born in an enormous explosion 14 billion years ago
30 Sep 1999,·4 mins
The key discoveries in east Africa and the quest to find more about our ancient ancestors
Personal recollections of Gandhi, Eva Peron, Gamal Abdel Nasser, JFK and Princess Diana
04 Oct 1999,·28 mins
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones were the first to go round the world non-stop
08 Oct 1999,·4 mins
George Cushing went to the fair in 1910 and saw fairground organs for the first time
Norma Miller was 12 when she was spotted dancing on the street in New York
12 Oct 1999,·4 mins
In 1952 Stanley Miller showed how life could have started on earth 3.5 billion years ago
14 Oct 1999,·4 mins
Tim Leland wanted find the world's first dinosaurs - he went to Valle de la Luna
15 Oct 1999,·4 mins
Happiness and personal achievement - dancing, going to a fair and the birth of a child
18 Oct 1999,·28 mins
Igor Stravinsky's work had a revolutionary impact which marked the start of modernism
25 Oct 1999,·4 mins
