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My Century Episodes

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    The Impact of Ford's Model T

    "Previous to the Model T the average person couldn't afford an automobile"

  2. Being a Vespa Fanatic

    Ermanno Spadoni recalls the days when raced around the countryside as a young man

  3. Farming in Bangladesh

    Mohammed Ismail Mia depends on agriculture and tills the land his father farmed before him

  4. Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement

    Nina Toni's parents lost their farm. She now campaigns for the fairer distribution of land

  5. South Korea's Boom Years

    Ahn Byung-wha on the economic reconstruction of South Korea after the civil war of 1950-53

  6. The Wall Street Crash of 1929

    The crash resulted in the Great Depression and a recession that was felt worldwide

  7. Germany's Hyperinflation

    Herbert Rees and Marion Gerver on how costs spiralled out of control after World War I

  8. First British Astronaut

    Helen Sharman describes going to the Mir space station in 1991

  9. Discovering Comets

    Carolyn Shoemaker has found 32 comets. She talks about comets impacting planets

  10. The Space Race

    Roald Sagdeev when the USSR and the US vied with each other to make the greatest advances

  11. Being a Prophet of Science Fact

    Arthur C Clarke on being a prophet of science fact including satellites and space travel

  12. Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture

    Victor Danilov remembers Stalin's collective farms - and the famine that followed

  13. Discovering New Stars

    Jocelyn Bell-Burnell describes her part in the discovery of a new kind of star - a pulsar

  14. Growing up as Part of Stalin's Family

    Sergo Beria's father was Stalin's chief of police and grew up as part of Stalin's family

  15. Farming - From Horse to Combine Harvester

    Ray Waters on how harvests in England have changed from using horses to being mechanised

  16. Farming - Organic Orchards

    John Jacobson plants his trees high up among the old forests on his mountainous farm

  17. The French Resistance

    Marcel Cerbu transmitted intelligence to London until he was captured in 1943

  18. The Father of Underwater Photography

    Hans Hass developed a waterproof casing for cameras so that he could both dive and film

  19. The Schuman Plan

    Max Kohnstamm on his part in creating the European Coal and Steel Authority in 1952

  20. The First UN Global Environment Conference

    Environmentalist Maurice Strong grew up in rural Canada with a strong interest in nature

  21. Instability and Revolution

    From the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall

  22. The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Oliver Berlau became one of the first East Germans to breach the Berlin Wall in 1989

  23. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge

    Van Nath is one of a handful of people to survive the notoriously brutal Tuol Sleng prison

  24. The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

    Doctor Otto von Habsburg is the son of Charles, last King-Emperor of Austria-Hungary who followed the autocratic Francis Joseph. Dr von Habsburg remembers the desperate attempts of his father to prevent the disintegration of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918.

  25. Lebanon's Slide from Affluence into Anarchy

    Christine Garabedian was only nine when the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975

  26. Wheelchair Racing Athlete

    Tanni Grey recalls the Barcelona Paralympics when she won four gold medals

  27. Winning the Spanish Lottery

    Bar owner Antonio Trinidad recalls the day he discovered he had won the Spanish El Gordo

  28. Winning the Grand National

    When Bob Champion was diagnosed with cancer, the dream of winning the event kept him going

  29. Environment

    How our awareness of our environment has become important over the 20th Century

  30. Reichstag, New German Parliament

    It has natural ventilation and a power station in its basement that runs on renewable fuel

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