First British Astronaut

Helen Sharman describes going to the Mir space station in 1991

• 4 mins

Germany's Hyperinflation

Herbert Rees and Marion Gerver on how costs spiralled out of control after World War I

• 4 mins

The Wall Street Crash of 1929

The crash resulted in the Great Depression and a recession that was felt worldwide

• 4 mins

South Korea's Boom Years

Ahn Byung-wha on the economic reconstruction of South Korea after the civil war of 1950-53

• 4 mins

Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement

Nina Toni's parents lost their farm. She now campaigns for the fairer distribution of land

• 4 mins

Farming in Bangladesh

Mohammed Ismail Mia depends on agriculture and tills the land his father farmed before him

• 3 mins

Being a Vespa Fanatic

Ermanno Spadoni recalls the days when raced around the countryside as a young man

• 4 mins

The Impact of Ford's Model T

"Previous to the Model T the average person couldn't afford an automobile"

• 4 mins

The People's Car, the VW Beetle

The Volkswagen Beetle became popular with the allied forces in Germany after World War II

• 4 mins

Playing on the Street

Winifred Barber recalls the bustle on the roads in the early part of the 20th Century

• 4 mins

Trucking in the US

Truck driver Stan Herrold has seen the US's road system transformed over the last 40 years

• 4 mins

Boom and Bust

German hyperinflation, the Wall Street crash, becoming a millionaire and losing it all

• 27 mins

Working the Land

Organic farming, Soviet collectivization, the mechanisation of agriculture and rice farms

• 28 mins

Lost In Space

Science fiction, the 'Space Race', discovering stars and comets, and travelling to space

• 27 mins

Surviving Hurricane Mitch

Edgardo Rodriguez - from Honduras - talks about 1998's devastating hurricane

• 4 mins

Surviving Hiroshima

"The mushroom cloud was rising higher and higher... it made me really fearful"

• 4 mins

Poet Behind Bars

Jack Mapanje is Malawis most famous poet - he was put in prison without trial or charge

• 4 mins

Surviving the Death Camps

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the concentration camps of both Auschwitz and Belsen

• 4 mins

Designing Clothes in the 1960s

Mary Quant's look "It was a look that you could move in, dance in and be alive in"

• 4 mins

Italy's Blackshirts

Renzo Lodoli wore the blackshirt in the Italian army when he went to Ethiopia in 1935

• 4 mins

The Kimono

Reiko Nebashi in Japan talks about her impending marriage and the dress she will wear

• 4 mins

Wearing a Headscarf

"It's like a constant reminder of who I am. It always reminds what I'm supposed to do"

• 4 mins

John F Kennedy

Robert MacNamara talks about JFK at the time of the Cuban missile crisis

• 4 mins

Sending the First Message over the Internet

Tech pioneer Leonard Kleinrock developed the technology to send messages on the internet

• 4 mins

Teaching via Radio in Australia

Elizabeth Adelt's students live in the outback - they belong to the School of the Air

• 4 mins

Communication

The revolution that took place in communication technology in the 20th Century

• 28 mins

Mahatma Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi remembers his grandfather, the father of India

• 4 mins

Arab Unity

Gamal Abdel Nasser was President of Egypt and the most influential advocate of Arab unity

• 4 mins

Princess Diana

Photographer Jayne Fincher accompanied Diana, Princess of Wales, on her royal tours

• 4 mins

Living in Colonial Sumatra

Rosihan Anwar discusses Dutch colonialism in western Sumatra where he grew up

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