My Century Episodes Available now
First British Astronaut
Helen Sharman describes going to the Mir space station in 1991
Farming - Organic Orchards
John Jacobson plants his trees high up among the old forests on his mountainous farm
Farming - From Horse to Combine Harvester
Ray Waters on how harvests in England have changed from using horses to being mechanised
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
Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture
Victor Danilov remembers Stalin's collective farms - and the famine that followed
Discovering New Stars
Jocelyn Bell-Burnell describes her part in the discovery of a new kind of star - a pulsar
The French Resistance
Marcel Cerbu transmitted intelligence to London until he was captured in 1943
The Father of Underwater Photography
Hans Hass developed a waterproof casing for cameras so that he could both dive and film
The Schuman Plan
Max Kohnstamm on his part in creating the European Coal and Steel Authority in 1952
The First UN Global Environment Conference
Environmentalist Maurice Strong grew up in rural Canada with a strong interest in nature