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Stravinsky, The Beatles, Jazz, Maria Callas and Bob Dylan

Elvin Jones joined the Benny Goodman Orchestra in New York in 1953

Giuseppe di Stefano on her fiery temperament and her ability to move audiences to tears

"Ladies always wore hats in the dining car..." George Behrende recalls steam travel

At 77 Loretta Burke was one of the oldest working flight attendants in the world

Wilkinson Wright explains how his great-uncles built the first working aeroplane

DA Pennebaker filmed Bob Dylan on tour in Britain as the civil rights movement began

Pat Delaney was a doorman at the Cavern club, Liverpool, UK when "four scruffs turned up"

As a young woman Tatyana Fyodorova volunteered to build the Moscow Metro in 1932

Abdul Khalek Bapari earns his living carrying goods and people up and down the river

Painters, sculptors and those who knew them discuss their work and the importance of art

French artist Marcel Duchamp questioned 19th Century ideas about art and aesthetic beauty

Tony Penrose spent much of his childhood staying with Pablo Picasso in the South of France

Huang Yongyu on his responsibility to express political views through painting

Guadalupe Rivera Marin on the atmosphere of the Blue House, living with artist Frida Kahlo

El Anatsui transforms the ancient symbols of African art and Africa's colonial heritage

"I felt a call from God. It has given me an opportunity to serve others"

Ravil Bukharaev on his relation to Islam after growing up with Soviet state atheism

"I realised I didn't have a chance to be myself: as an African, as a Mozambican."

Authors and actors choose their book of the century and explain what makes it so special

"I looked at his work like music and to me it was rhythm and pauses, and lack of pauses."

Edmund White talks about Marcel Proust's view of love and art

Oscar nominated Jack Cardiff talks about his long career in cinema

Emeterio Pantaleon Garcia learned to fight with the guerilla leader during the revolution

Annie Proulx's choice for her book of the 21st Century captures a vibrant dialect

"We suffered very much... I feel I can't say anything because it is done and finished"

Ebrahim Yazdi was deputy prime minister and foreign minister Iran's provisional government

"It's about the meeting of the European culture... with that of an Igbo tribe"

African journalist Cameron Duodu reported on South Africa, from Sharpville to Mandela

Ahdaf Soueif says it articulates the inner conflict between the Middle East and the West