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20/20: A View of the Century

John Tusa's award-winning series on turbulent times

World Service,10 episodes

Episodes

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Dreaming
How advances in science and technology turned ordinary people's lives upside down
20 Sep 1995,43 mins
Controlling
John Tusa on the century that created totalitarianism, and then survived it
21 Sep 1995,43 mins
Enjoying
When entertainment went from private and personal, to communal and global
22 Sep 1995,42 mins
Exploring
Driven insatiable curiosity, exploration in the 20th Century knew almost no bounds
23 Sep 1995,43 mins
Living
How morality, medicine, population and emotion, changed life in the 20th Century
24 Sep 1995,43 mins
Believing
The century's changing sense of unity and togetherness
25 Sep 1995,42 mins
Killing
"Genocide...holocaust, these are our centuries unlovely calling cards"
21 Jun 1996,42 mins
Loving
From duty to pleasure, obligation to freedom, the story of loving in the 20th Century
23 Jun 1996,41 mins
Talking
The explosion of talking in the 20th Century. But...is anyone listening?
24 Jun 1996,42 mins
Belonging
How wearing the "badge of belonging" changed over the 20th Century
23 Sep 1996,42 mins