Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,31 May 1999,26 mins

Images of the Century

My Century

Available for over a year

People discuss the most prominent images of the 20th Century and discuss their relationship to the image. John Hench talks about drawing Mickey Mouse; Agnieszka Holland talks about the swastika; Mike Lessor reflects on what the image of the atomic mushroom cloud means to him; Helen Steel and Dave Morris discuss McDonalds' golden arches; and An Xi Jiang recalls what she thinks of Chairman Mao.

Programme Website
More episodes