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My Century Episodes

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    Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

    Pierre-Celestine Rusengatabaro describes the psychological trauma of surviving

  2. Taking Prozac

    US author Elizabeth Wurtzel talks about her depression and Prozac's effect on her

  3. Treating Mental Health in Pakistan

    "If I want to do something worthwhile I must go to work with faith healers"

  4. From Asylum to Humane Environment

    Bob Grove describes a psychiatric colony which resembled an 18th Century 'madhouse'

  5. The McCarthy Era

    Ruth Goldberg was denounced as a left-wing activist when she stood for the PTA election

  6. Finding Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann

    Former Mossad agent Hermann Arndt on his part in finding Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann

  7. IVF Treatment

    "The stress stays with you right through to the very end, but it's worth it"

  8. The Introduction of Water Births

    Michel Odent introduced the concept of birthing pools in French hospitals

  9. International Adoption

    Julia talks about adopting her children Iris, Hazel, Ivy and Ike from China and Vietnam

  10. Natural Childbirth vs Caesarian Section

    Angelina and her daughter Irene from Costa Rica compare their childbirth experiences

  11. Manufacturing Model T Cars at Ford

    Paul Batin arrived at the Ford Motor plant in Detroit as a young boy in 1927

  12. Indonesian Garment Worker

    "I dream about clean work, free from oppression, free from exploitation"

  13. Currency Trader in the UK

    "It's a very combative environment" says Robert Rigg of London's finance district

  14. The Architect of Brasilia

    Brasilia became Brazil's capital in 1960. Oscar Niemeyer was commissioned to build it

  15. The City

    What it was like to build cities, govern them but most importantly to live in them

  16. Japan's Salarymen

    Property consultant or salaryman, Hitoshi Iemura describes his job in Tokyo

  17. Workers of The World

    A Russian miner, an Indonesian garment worker, City trader and a Ford plant worker

  18. Mining in the USSR

    Ukrainian Vladimir Titarev on how miners used to be the heroes of the Soviet State

  19. Drinking Coffee with Fidel Castro

    Andres Castillo Berna took Fidel Castro to a cafe and they talked for hours

  20. Using the Media to Make the World Aware of Apartheid

    Helped by Miles Davis and Harry Belafonte - Hugh Masekela had a hit with Stimela

  21. Enforced Exile

    Christina Navarrete recalls the sadness at being forced to leave Chile - and her family

  22. How Antibiotics Revolutionised Healthcare

    Good food and rest was the only treatment for patients with infections before the 1940s

  23. Exile

    Experiences of exile: from Iran, Palestine, Russia, Chile - and from family

  24. Organ Transplants

    The use of anti-rejection drugs has made human organ transplants possible

  25. Marrying Outside the Caste in India

    Rejected by family - Meenakshi Sundriyal from an upper class caste and Muslim Khurshid Ali

  26. Child in Exile in Russia

    Aged seven, Vera Broido accompanied her mother in exile to Western Siberia

  27. Working in Genetics

    Elizabeth Fisher on her work attempting to find genes involved in neurological diseases

  28. Eureka!

    Scientific discoveries of the 20th Century: Einstein, quantum mechanics and DNA

  29. Getting Rid of Tokyo's Rubbish

    Japan's capital city generates 4 million tonnes of waste a year. How is it disposed of?

  30. The Discovery of Plate Tectonics

    Why earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur, and why and how mountains form

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