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Living with HIV/Aids
"When I discovered I was HIV positive, I knew life had to go on"
Deep Diver
Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard travelled 11,000 metres to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
Walking to the North Pole
Sue and Victoria Riches were the first British women to walk to the North Pole
Popularising Bungee Jumping
Bungee pioneer AJ Hackett on how he made the extreme sport popular around the world.
Paralympic Gold Medallist
"Disability really hasn't prevented me from doing anything at all."
Pushing The Limits - Women Pilots
The American pilot Fay Gillis Wells remembers her friend and fellow aviator Amelia Earhart
Sex Montage
How sexual attitudes changed over the 20th Century for the good - and not so good
The Four Minute Mile
Roger Bannister remembers the May evening in 1954 when he ran a mile in four minutes
First Olympic Gold Medal for Morocco
Nawal el Moutawakel remembers the race that won her Olympic gold in 1984 for 400m hurdles
Pushing The Limits
Accounts of people whose exploits and explorations pushed them to the limits of endurance
Breaking Test Cricket Records
Cricketer Brian Lara on making 375 runs for the West Indies against England
Four Gold Medals at the Berlin Olympics
Jesse Owens won the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and the long jump at the 1936 Olympics
Airport Building in China
Hong Kong's old airport Kai Tak, nostalgically remembered by pilot Jim Eckers
Seagram Building
The iconic Manhattan skyscraper was designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Shopping Malls
Bafana Khumalo takes us on a tour of Sandtown City, the largest shopping mall in Africa
Traditional Egyptian Houses for the Future
Architect Adel Fahmy onn using natural building materials to construct domes and vaults
Building Tower Blocks
Ivor Smith was one of the architects behind the Park Hill estate in Sheffield
Palestinian Exodus
Audeh Rantisi on being exiled to the West Bank in July 1948
Shah of Iran is Exiled
Farah Pahlavi, the Shah's wife on living elsewhere, from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas
Building the 20th Century
Architecture and its development - how building design changed over the 20th Century
Retaining Dignity Under Apartheid
"Our freedom is such a precious thing for us in South Africa"
Improving Prisons in India
Kiran Bedi converted Tihar jail into a place of reformation - an ashram
Fighting Under the Israeli Flag
Netiva Ben Yehu joined the Jewish underground to fight against the British and the Arabs
Votes for Women in Britain
Protests, hunger strikes, sleep deprivation and prison were endured by suffragettes
Last of Their Generation
Remembering Stalin, the French Resistance, underwater photography and the Bloomsbury Group
Aspects of Mental Health
Patients and professionals talk about the mental health issues that have affected them
Women of the World
Women who have made their mark on the 20th Century from a prison reformer to a suffragette
Changing Attitudes to Women through Indian Cinema
How stardom has helped Shabana Azmi make films that challenge traditional attitudes
Filming History
Stanley Forman filmed world events to show what war really meant for ordinary people
Moving From the Country to the City
"I'd never seen a building with tiles. I'd been living in a village in a round hut"
African Film-maker
Portraying injustice a theme of Jean Marie Teno's films. It's got him into trouble