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World Service,31 Dec 1999,4 mins

A Witness to all of the 20th Century

My Century

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Molly Garth was born in Jamaica on 1 January, 1900. The first day of the new millennium was her 100th birthday. She describes notable events in her long life - seeing a motor car for the first time, seeing a plane land and the earthquake of 1907. "Life was simpler then."

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