The story of the 20th Century, by those who were there at the era's most important moments
World Service,路283 episodes
Frances Partridge on being a member of the unconventional artistic and intellectual group
Born one of a family of seven Ernst Michanek campaigned to make birth control available
Life-saving developments in health: antibiotics, oral rehydration and transplant surgery
Roberto Vitali has been a paraplegic since he had severe injury in a head-on collision
Tute Chigama makes and plays the thumb piano - he compares life with his grandaughter
Psychiatrist Dr Vahida Demirovic treated the bereaved and the injured in the Balkans War
Giandomenico Picco was a UN diplomat dealing with conflict resolution in Lebanon
During 1936 - 1956 Stalin exiled by force 3.5 million people who he regarded as traitors
Ikor Allegria Guzman thinks traditional values are deteriorating in her part of Guatemala
Jack Johnson won the title in 1908, but his biggest challenge was overcoming prejudice
Fighting with the IRA, the Long March, Stalin deportation and the bombing of Sarajevo
At 98 Dan Keating says there will never be peace in Ireland until the country is united
John Muir's letters influenced the setting up of National Parks across the US
It has natural ventilation and a power station in its basement that runs on renewable fuel
How our awareness of our environment has become important over the 20th Century
When Bob Champion was diagnosed with cancer, the dream of winning the event kept him going
Bar owner Antonio Trinidad recalls the day he discovered he had won the Spanish El Gordo
Tanni Grey recalls the Barcelona Paralympics when she won four gold medals
Christine Garabedian was only nine when the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975
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.
Van Nath is one of a handful of people to survive the notoriously brutal Tuol Sleng prison
Oliver Berlau became one of the first East Germans to breach the Berlin Wall in 1989
From the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall
Environmentalist Maurice Strong grew up in rural Canada with a strong interest in nature
Max Kohnstamm on his part in creating the European Coal and Steel Authority in 1952
Hans Hass developed a waterproof casing for cameras so that he could both dive and film
Marcel Cerbu transmitted intelligence to London until he was captured in 1943
John Jacobson plants his trees high up among the old forests on his mountainous farm
Ray Waters on how harvests in England have changed from using horses to being mechanised
Sergo Beria's father was Stalin's chief of police and grew up as part of Stalin's family
