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My Century Episodes

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    Worship of the Japanese Emperor

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

  2. Orthodox Judaism

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

  3. Women Ordained in the Anglican Church

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

  4. Live Aid

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

  5. Still Lives - omnibus edition

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

  6. Giving Birth in Zanzibar

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

  7. Language

    Translators, adopting English, storytellers and endangered languages

  8. Inheritors

    The 20th Century through the eyes of the world's indigenous people

  9. Before Washing Machines - Wash Day

    Joanna Roberts remembers the endless hours that women spent doing the weekly laundry

  10. Clothes

    The mini skirt, the blackshirt, the headscarf, Gambian dressmaking and a bride-to-be

  11. The Hadza People of Tanzania

    Simon Charles is part of a community who still lives by hunting and gathering

  12. Australia's Stolen Generation

    Cecil Dickson was taken away from his parents when he was just four years old

  13. The Sami People of Northern Europe

    Pekka Aikio is a member of a group that have traditionally lived by herding reindeer

  14. Traditional Native American Storyteller

    Liz Campbell tells the story of Poia - how the Blackfeet people got the sun dance

  15. Moving from Venezuela's Rainforest

    Indigenous Venezuelan Hilda Samson worries about her community losing their culture

  16. Making Clothes in Gambia

    Dressmaker Margery Liwali talks about one of Gambia's most popular professions

  17. Looking through a Family Album

    Dorothy Childs on her family photos that captured key moments of the 20th Century

  18. The Falsification of Photographs in the USSR

    How Stalin encouraged the alteration of photographs to remove people such as Trotsky

  19. Che Guevara

    Richard Gott was there when the security forces showed Guevara's body to the press

  20. The Invention of Nylon

    Norman Miles took part in an early experiment to test the durability of the new fibre

  21. The Invention of Polythene

    Polythene was a vital ingredient in the development of radar in World War II

  22. Edison's Industrial Research Laboratory

    Menlo Park had a team of researchers who worked on research and development

  23. How Fridges Have Changed Lives

    Zvikomborero Mlambo used to spend hours preserving food: drying, smoking and salting

  24. Photographing Sharpeville

    Ian Berry's pictures are a graphic record of the massacre of demonstrators in South Africa

  25. Photo-journalist for Picture Post Magazine

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

  26. Monuments and Memorials

    Commemorating the people and events that marked the 20th Century

  27. Israel's Yad Vashem

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

  28. Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington

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

  29. New Zealand's Aviation Pioneer

    Jean Batten flew solo from Britain to New Zealand in 1936

  30. The UN's Dag Hammarskjold

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

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