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  1. Best of My Century - Communism

    Stalin, the Long March, the Cultural Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall

  2. Best of My Century - World War II

    Survivors of the siege of Leningrad, the Holocaust and Hiroshima

  3. Best of My Century - War

    Accounts from survivors of conflicts in Rwanda, Spain, Vietnam, Lebanon and Bosnia

  4. Best of My Century - the Arts

    Artistic highlights of the 20th Century from swing dancing, to Picasso to Samuel Beckett

  5. A Witness to all of the 20th Century

    Molly Garth was 100 on 1 January, 2000. She describes her long life

  6. Hitler Youth Courier in the Führerbunker

    "I was four years old when he came to power. I was a product of Nazi upbringing"

  7. Assassination of President John F Kennedy

    Jeff Franzen was six when he witnessed the assassination of President John F Kennedy

  8. Germany Invades Poland

    Clare Hollingworth saw rows of tanks and she knew it meant an imminent German invasion

  9. Best of My Century - Human Life

    Ordinary lives in the 20th Century from the washing machine to migration

  10. Best of My Century - Continuity and Change

    Customs of an older age: harvest time with horses, hunting and letter writing

  11. Best of My Century - Progress

    The scientific and technological breakthroughs that have transformed our lives

  12. Best of My Century - Witnesses

    Defining moments of 20th Century - from the Iranian revolution to the Armenian genocide

  13. Best of My Century - Freedom and Independence

    From life under the British in India to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa

  14. Said's Autobiography Out of Place

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

  15. Becoming a Journalist in Africa

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

  16. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

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

  17. Working with Ayatollah Khomeini

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

  18. Armenian Genocide

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

  19. The Dictionary of Newfoundland English

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

  20. Zapata's Peasant Army

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

  21. Cinematographer

    Oscar nominated Jack Cardiff talks about his long career in cinema

  22. French Novelist Marcel Proust

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

  23. Working with Samuel Beckett

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

  24. Writing the Century

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

  25. Living in Colonial Mozambique

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

  26. Russian Soviet State Atheism

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

  27. Becoming a Jesuit Priest

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

  28. A Sculptor of Africa

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

  29. Life with Frida Kahlo

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

  30. Painting Through the Cultural Revolution

    Huang Yongyu on his responsibility to express political views through painting

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