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My Century Episodes

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    On Holiday with Picasso

    Tony Penrose spent much of his childhood staying with Pablo Picasso in the South of France

  2. The Father of Conceptual Art

    French artist Marcel Duchamp questioned 19th Century ideas about art and aesthetic beauty

  3. A Century of Art

    Painters, sculptors and those who knew them discuss their work and the importance of art

  4. Bangladesh's Boatmen

    Abdul Khalek Bapari earns his living carrying goods and people up and down the river

  5. Building the Moscow Underground

    As a young woman Tatyana Fyodorova volunteered to build the Moscow Metro in 1932

  6. The Beatles at the Cavern Club

    Pat Delaney was a doorman at the Cavern club, Liverpool, UK when "four scruffs turned up"

  7. The Rock Documentary

    DA Pennebaker filmed Bob Dylan on tour in Britain as the civil rights movement began

  8. The Wright Brothers

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

  9. Air Stewardesses

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

  10. Rail Travel by Steam Engine

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

  11. Singing with Callas

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

  12. Jazz Drumming

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

  13. Sounds of the Century

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

  14. The Start of Modernism in Music

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

  15. One of the Best Days of My Life

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

  16. The Search for Dinosaur Fossils

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

  17. The Origins of Life on Earth

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

  18. Swing Dancing

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

  19. Steam-driven Fairground Organs

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

  20. Circumnavigating the World in a Hot Air Balloon

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

  21. Heroes and Heroines

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

  22. The Search for Human Origins

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

  23. The Big Bang Theory

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

  24. Origins

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

  25. Being an Interpreter at the EU Headquarters

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

  26. 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.

  27. Churchill's Interpreter

    Hugh Lunghi describes interpreting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

  28. The Rise of English in Nigeria

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

  29. The Storytelling Tradition in North America

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

  30. I Believe

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

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