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Surviving Hurricane Mitch

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

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Surviving Hiroshima

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

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Poet Behind Bars

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

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Surviving the Death Camps

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

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Designing Clothes in the 1960s

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

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Italy's Blackshirts

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

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The Kimono

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

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Wearing a Headscarf

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

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John F Kennedy

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

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Sending the First Message over the Internet

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

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Teaching via Radio in Australia

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

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Communication

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

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Mahatma Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi remembers his grandfather, the father of India

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Arab Unity

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

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Princess Diana

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

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Living in Colonial Sumatra

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

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Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising

Harkman Muiruri Muniu took part in the campaign against colonial rule in 1952

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The Final Years of British Rule in India

Sir Denholm Fraser liaised with India's Maharajas in the run up to independence

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The Telephone

Kayan Nyelang explains how life has been transformed since the arrival of the telephone

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Living in Colonial Algeria

"It was a kind of South Africa without the legal system of apartheid"

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Writing and Sending Letters

Shamlu Dudeja recalls when letters were written by scribes and some were sent by camel

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Argentina's Eva Peron

Christina Alvarez Rodriguez, describes her great aunt Evita as 'A woman of action'

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Colonialisation and Decolonialisation

The fight for independence and self government in the 20th Century

• 28 mins

Monument to the Spanish Civil War

Laurentino Saenz de Baruaga is a Benedictine monk who tends the Valle de los Caidos

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The UN's Dag Hammarskjold

Brian Urquhart remembers Dag Hammarskjold who helped shape the United Nations.

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New Zealand's Aviation Pioneer

Jean Batten flew solo from Britain to New Zealand in 1936

• 3 mins

Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington

Jan Scruggs describes how it has helped the US to recover from the trauma of Vietnam

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Israel's Yad Vashem

Ben Helscott lost both parents in the Holocaust. He describes what Israel's memorial means

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Monuments and Memorials

Commemorating the people and events that marked the 20th Century

• 28 mins

Photo-journalist for Picture Post Magazine

Grace Robertson travelled around Europe with her camera after World War II

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