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My Century Episodes

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    First Olympic Gold Medal for Morocco

    Nawal el Moutawakel remembers the race that won her Olympic gold in 1984 for 400m hurdles

  2. The Four Minute Mile

    Roger Bannister remembers the May evening in 1954 when he ran a mile in four minutes

  3. Sex Montage

    How sexual attitudes changed over the 20th Century for the good - and not so good

  4. Pushing The Limits - Women Pilots

    The American pilot Fay Gillis Wells remembers her friend and fellow aviator Amelia Earhart

  5. Paralympic Gold Medallist

    "Disability really hasn't prevented me from doing anything at all."

  6. Popularising Bungee Jumping

    Bungee pioneer AJ Hackett on how he made the extreme sport popular around the world.

  7. Walking to the North Pole

    Sue and Victoria Riches were the first British women to walk to the North Pole

  8. Deep Diver

    Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard travelled 11,000 metres to the bottom of the Mariana Trench

  9. Living with HIV/Aids

    "When I discovered I was HIV positive, I knew life had to go on"

  10. Geisha Girl

    Kiharu Nakamura talks about becoming a high class entertainer in Japan

  11. The Contraceptive Pill

    Maureen describes her life before the pill and how it changed when she started to take it

  12. Enniskillen Bombing

    Noreen Hill on how her husband was severely injured at the Remembrance Day bombing

  13. Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

    "Apartheid was all pervasive" – Dr Fazel Randera on South Africa's human rights abuses

  14. Surviving a Soviet Labour Camp

    At 28, the Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya was imprisoned for her writing

  15. Wartime Love and Persecution

    Gad Beck on life in Nazi Germany as a gay man and how he lost his true love

  16. An Enemy of the State in Maoist China

    Nien Cheng was imprisoned in solitary confinement for six and a half years

  17. Reporting the Nuremberg Trials

    Stefan Heyn on the defendents responsible for the horrific events of the Holocaust

  18. No Healthcare for Prisoners

    "What they really need is treatment", says prisoner Gilberto Fernandez

  19. Surviving the Holocaust

    Lucille Eichengreen saw her entire family killed, what affect has it had on her faith?

  20. After Amritsar

    Aftar Singh on being caught up in Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amristar

  21. Losing a Loved One

    Helia Lopez Zarsoza's sister's fiancΓ©'s disappearance and how her faith helps her

  22. New Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Old Faith

    Mohammed Accram Khan-Cheema on how he almost lost touch with Islam when he emigrated

  23. Birth of a Nation

    From Chairman Mao declaring the People's Republic of China to Ghana's independence

  24. Beliefs in the 20th Century

    People share their memories and experiences of their faith in the 20th Century

  25. Birth of a Nation - Ghana

    John Offeh recalls how his country's new found liberty affected ordinary people

  26. Birth of A Nation - India

    Journalist Khushwant Singh heard Jawaharlal Nehru announce Indian independence in 1947

  27. Birth of a Nation - Israel

    The UN voted for the partition of Palestine allowing the creation of a Jewish state

  28. Birth of a Nation - China

    Xu Xiaobing and Hou Bo heard Chairman Mao proclaim the People's Republic of China

  29. Being Kurdish

    Kurdish musician Tara Jaff on belonging to a community with no nation of their own

  30. Shelling of Sarajevo

    Edo Dedovic was a teenager when he was injured during shelling at Sarajevo in Bosnia

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