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My Century Episodes

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    Monument to the Spanish Civil War

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

  2. Colonialisation and Decolonialisation

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

  3. Argentina's Eva Peron

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

  4. Writing and Sending Letters

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

  5. Living in Colonial Algeria

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

  6. The Telephone

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

  7. The Final Years of British Rule in India

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

  8. Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising

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

  9. Living in Colonial Sumatra

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

  10. Princess Diana

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

  11. Arab Unity

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

  12. Mahatma Gandhi

    Rajmohan Gandhi remembers his grandfather, the father of India

  13. Communication

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

  14. Teaching via Radio in Australia

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

  15. Sending the First Message over the Internet

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

  16. John F Kennedy

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

  17. Wearing a Headscarf

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

  18. The Kimono

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

  19. Italy's Blackshirts

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

  20. Designing Clothes in the 1960s

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

  21. Surviving the Death Camps

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

  22. Poet Behind Bars

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

  23. Surviving Hiroshima

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

  24. Surviving Hurricane Mitch

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

  25. Lost In Space

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

  26. Working the Land

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

  27. Boom and Bust

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

  28. Trucking in the US

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

  29. Playing on the Street

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

  30. The People's Car, the VW Beetle

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

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