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Enforced Exile

Christina Navarrete recalls the sadness at being forced to leave Chile - and her family

• 4 mins

Using the Media to Make the World Aware of Apartheid

Helped by Miles Davis and Harry Belafonte - Hugh Masekela had a hit with Stimela

• 4 mins

Drinking Coffee with Fidel Castro

Andres Castillo Berna took Fidel Castro to a cafe and they talked for hours

• 4 mins

Mining in the USSR

Ukrainian Vladimir Titarev on how miners used to be the heroes of the Soviet State

• 4 mins

Workers of The World

A Russian miner, an Indonesian garment worker, City trader and a Ford plant worker

• 28 mins

Japan's Salarymen

Property consultant or salaryman, Hitoshi Iemura describes his job in Tokyo

• 4 mins

The City

What it was like to build cities, govern them but most importantly to live in them

• 28 mins

The Architect of Brasilia

Brasilia became Brazil's capital in 1960. Oscar Niemeyer was commissioned to build it

• 4 mins

Currency Trader in the UK

"It's a very combative environment" says Robert Rigg of London's finance district

• 4 mins

Indonesian Garment Worker

"I dream about clean work, free from oppression, free from exploitation"

• 4 mins

Manufacturing Model T Cars at Ford

Paul Batin arrived at the Ford Motor plant in Detroit as a young boy in 1927

• 4 mins

Natural Childbirth vs Caesarian Section

Angelina and her daughter Irene from Costa Rica compare their childbirth experiences

• 4 mins

International Adoption

Julia talks about adopting her children Iris, Hazel, Ivy and Ike from China and Vietnam

• 4 mins

The Introduction of Water Births

Michel Odent introduced the concept of birthing pools in French hospitals

• 4 mins

IVF Treatment

"The stress stays with you right through to the very end, but it's worth it"

• 4 mins

Finding Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann

Former Mossad agent Hermann Arndt on his part in finding Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann

• 4 mins

The McCarthy Era

Ruth Goldberg was denounced as a left-wing activist when she stood for the PTA election

• 4 mins

From Asylum to Humane Environment

Bob Grove describes a psychiatric colony which resembled an 18th Century 'madhouse'

• 4 mins

Treating Mental Health in Pakistan

"If I want to do something worthwhile I must go to work with faith healers"

• 4 mins

Taking Prozac

US author Elizabeth Wurtzel talks about her depression and Prozac's effect on her

• 4 mins

Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

Pierre-Celestine Rusengatabaro describes the psychological trauma of surviving

• 4 mins

Freud's Theory of Psychoanalysis

Freud believed that neurotic illness was caused by repressing painful memories

• 3 mins

Pinochet's Operation Condor

A covert co-operation to arrest people considered to be activists in 1970s Latin America

• 4 mins

Secret State

The secretive world of spies and state security systems of the 20th Century

• 28 mins

Cold War Spy

"All spies were doing the same thing. Quite often spies gave each other information"

• 4 mins

First World War Spy Mata Hari

Blamed for the deaths of 50,000 men, she was famous for her seductions and pillow talk

• 4 mins

Becoming a Red Guard

The movement that sought to bring about violent change throughout Chinese society

• 4 mins

The Swastika

The symbol of the Nazis, with roots in mythology, the swastika is now banned in Germany

• 4 mins

Atomic Mushroom Cloud

The 20th Century's symbol of destruction

• 4 mins

McDonald's Golden Arches

Helen Steel and Dave Morris reflect on what fast food branding means to them

• 4 mins