Language

Translators, adopting English, storytellers and endangered languages

• 28 mins

Giving Birth in Zanzibar

Mahfoudha Alley Hamid remembers in a potent combination of pain and pleasure

• 3 mins

Still Lives - omnibus edition

Photojournalism, altering photos in Soviet times and a family photo album

• 28 mins

Live Aid

Bob Geldof organised Live Aid concert to raise money for famine victims in Ethiopia

• 4 mins

Women Ordained in the Anglican Church

Angela Berners Wilson was one of the first to be ordained in the Church of England

• 4 mins

Orthodox Judaism

Johanen Eickhoff on how becoming more observant means he has gained a life of spirituality

• 4 mins

Worship of the Japanese Emperor

Kazuo Chiba talks about the Japanese Emperor and the worship of him as a deity

• 4 mins

I Believe

Liberation theology, growing up with Soviet atheism and the divine emperor in Japan

• 28 mins

The Storytelling Tradition in North America

Dovie Thomason tries to find truths from stories that are universal for any era

• 4 mins

The Rise of English in Nigeria

"It's a language of upward mobility. It's a language of opportunity"

• 4 mins

Churchill's Interpreter

Hugh Lunghi describes interpreting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

• 4 mins

Khinalig - a Dying Language

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.

• 4 mins

Being an Interpreter at the EU Headquarters

Sandra Gallina talks about making sure that the representatives understand each other

• 4 mins

Origins

How the origins of man and planet Earth have developed over the 20th Century

• 28 mins

The Big Bang Theory

Bob Wilson on how the universe was born in an enormous explosion 14 billion years ago

• 4 mins

The Search for Human Origins

The key discoveries in east Africa and the quest to find more about our ancient ancestors

• 4 mins

Heroes and Heroines

Personal recollections of Gandhi, Eva Peron, Gamal Abdel Nasser, JFK and Princess Diana

• 28 mins

Circumnavigating the World in a Hot Air Balloon

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones were the first to go round the world non-stop

• 4 mins

Steam-driven Fairground Organs

George Cushing went to the fair in 1910 and saw fairground organs for the first time

• 4 mins

Swing Dancing

Norma Miller was 12 when she was spotted dancing on the street in New York

• 4 mins

The Origins of Life on Earth

In 1952 Stanley Miller showed how life could have started on earth 3.5 billion years ago

• 4 mins

The Search for Dinosaur Fossils

Tim Leland wanted find the world's first dinosaurs - he went to Valle de la Luna

• 4 mins

One of the Best Days of My Life

Happiness and personal achievement - dancing, going to a fair and the birth of a child

• 28 mins

The Start of Modernism in Music

Igor Stravinsky's work had a revolutionary impact which marked the start of modernism

• 4 mins

Sounds of the Century

Stravinsky, The Beatles, Jazz, Maria Callas and Bob Dylan

• 28 mins

Jazz Drumming

Elvin Jones joined the Benny Goodman Orchestra in New York in 1953

• 4 mins

Singing with Callas

Giuseppe di Stefano on her fiery temperament and her ability to move audiences to tears

• 4 mins

Rail Travel by Steam Engine

"Ladies always wore hats in the dining car..." George Behrende recalls steam travel

• 4 mins

Air Stewardesses

At 77 Loretta Burke was one of the oldest working flight attendants in the world

• 4 mins

The Wright Brothers

Wilkinson Wright explains how his great-uncles built the first working aeroplane

• 4 mins