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My Century Episodes

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    Founder of Modern Environmentalism

    John Muir's letters influenced the setting up of National Parks across the US

  2. Fighting for the IRA from 1919 to 1921

    At 98 Dan Keating says there will never be peace in Ireland until the country is united

  3. Eyewitnesses

    Fighting with the IRA, the Long March, Stalin deportation and the bombing of Sarajevo

  4. First Black American Boxer Becomes Heavyweight Champion

    Jack Johnson won the title in 1908, but his biggest challenge was overcoming prejudice

  5. The Family in Guatemala

    Ikor Allegria Guzman thinks traditional values are deteriorating in her part of Guatemala

  6. Forcible Exile to Kazakhstan

    During 1936 - 1956 Stalin exiled by force 3.5 million people who he regarded as traitors

  7. Conflict Resolution

    Giandomenico Picco was a UN diplomat dealing with conflict resolution in Lebanon

  8. Bosnia War Injuries

    Psychiatrist Dr Vahida Demirovic treated the bereaved and the injured in the Balkans War

  9. The Family in Zimbabwe

    Tute Chigama makes and plays the thumb piano - he compares life with his grandaughter

  10. Disability in Italy

    Roberto Vitali has been a paraplegic since he had severe injury in a head-on collision

  11. Health

    Life-saving developments in health: antibiotics, oral rehydration and transplant surgery

  12. Birth Control in Sweden and Beyond

    Born one of a family of seven Ernst Michanek campaigned to make birth control available

  13. The Bloomsbury Group

    Frances Partridge on being a member of the unconventional artistic and intellectual group

  14. The Family in Sri Lanka

    Rohan Ponniah compares his father's role to his own experience of parenting

  15. The Family

    From divorce to traditional values, from being an only child to modern parenting

  16. Boom and Bust in Thailand

    Siriwat Wittikun made millions investing in the Thai stock market but he lost it all

  17. Oral Rehydration in Egypt

    How simple medicines saved Hytham Abdel Ma'soud's life when he got acute diarrhoea

  18. The Family in China

    Xia Li Qin accepts China's one child policy and doesn't know anyone who has more than one

  19. The Family in the Great Lakes, Africa

    Millicent Obaso works as a reproductive health officer across 14 countries

  20. Images of the Century

    Mickey Mouse, the swastika, the atomic mushroom cloud, McDonalds' golden arches and Mao

  21. Mickey Mouse

    What Mickey Mouse means to John Hench, the man who spent his life drawing him

  22. McDonald's Golden Arches

    Helen Steel and Dave Morris reflect on what fast food branding means to them

  23. Atomic Mushroom Cloud

    The 20th Century's symbol of destruction

  24. The Swastika

    The symbol of the Nazis, with roots in mythology, the swastika is now banned in Germany

  25. Becoming a Red Guard

    The movement that sought to bring about violent change throughout Chinese society

  26. First World War Spy Mata Hari

    Blamed for the deaths of 50,000 men, she was famous for her seductions and pillow talk

  27. Cold War Spy

    "All spies were doing the same thing. Quite often spies gave each other information"

  28. Secret State

    The secretive world of spies and state security systems of the 20th Century

  29. Pinochet's Operation Condor

    A covert co-operation to arrest people considered to be activists in 1970s Latin America

  30. Freud's Theory of Psychoanalysis

    Freud believed that neurotic illness was caused by repressing painful memories

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