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The Invention of Polythene

Polythene was a vital ingredient in the development of radar in World War II

• 4 mins

The Invention of Nylon

Norman Miles took part in an early experiment to test the durability of the new fibre

• 4 mins

Che Guevara

Richard Gott was there when the security forces showed Guevara's body to the press

• 4 mins

The Falsification of Photographs in the USSR

How Stalin encouraged the alteration of photographs to remove people such as Trotsky

• 3 mins

Looking through a Family Album

Dorothy Childs on her family photos that captured key moments of the 20th Century

• 4 mins

Making Clothes in Gambia

Dressmaker Margery Liwali talks about one of Gambia's most popular professions

• 4 mins

Moving from Venezuela's Rainforest

Indigenous Venezuelan Hilda Samson worries about her community losing their culture

• 4 mins

Traditional Native American Storyteller

Liz Campbell tells the story of Poia - how the Blackfeet people got the sun dance

• 4 mins

The Sami People of Northern Europe

Pekka Aikio is a member of a group that have traditionally lived by herding reindeer

• 4 mins

Australia's Stolen Generation

Cecil Dickson was taken away from his parents when he was just four years old

• 4 mins

The Hadza People of Tanzania

Simon Charles is part of a community who still lives by hunting and gathering

• 4 mins

Clothes

The mini skirt, the blackshirt, the headscarf, Gambian dressmaking and a bride-to-be

• 28 mins

Before Washing Machines - Wash Day

Joanna Roberts remembers the endless hours that women spent doing the weekly laundry

• 4 mins

Inheritors

The 20th Century through the eyes of the world's indigenous people

• 28 mins

Language

Translators, adopting English, storytellers and endangered languages

• 28 mins

Giving Birth in Zanzibar

Mahfoudha Alley Hamid remembers in a potent combination of pain and pleasure

• 3 mins

Still Lives - omnibus edition

Photojournalism, altering photos in Soviet times and a family photo album

• 28 mins

Live Aid

Bob Geldof organised Live Aid concert to raise money for famine victims in Ethiopia

• 4 mins

Women Ordained in the Anglican Church

Angela Berners Wilson was one of the first to be ordained in the Church of England

• 4 mins

Orthodox Judaism

Johanen Eickhoff on how becoming more observant means he has gained a life of spirituality

• 4 mins

Worship of the Japanese Emperor

Kazuo Chiba talks about the Japanese Emperor and the worship of him as a deity

• 4 mins

I Believe

Liberation theology, growing up with Soviet atheism and the divine emperor in Japan

• 28 mins

The Storytelling Tradition in North America

Dovie Thomason tries to find truths from stories that are universal for any era

• 4 mins

The Rise of English in Nigeria

"It's a language of upward mobility. It's a language of opportunity"

• 4 mins

Churchill's Interpreter

Hugh Lunghi describes interpreting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

• 4 mins

Khinalig - a Dying Language

High in the Caucasus mountains of Azerbaijan is the village of Khinalig where speaker Anver Mamedov is the schoolmaster. Mamedov is aware that times are changing and is worried that the Khinalig language spoken only in this village will not survive.

• 4 mins

Being an Interpreter at the EU Headquarters

Sandra Gallina talks about making sure that the representatives understand each other

• 4 mins

Origins

How the origins of man and planet Earth have developed over the 20th Century

• 28 mins

The Big Bang Theory

Bob Wilson on how the universe was born in an enormous explosion 14 billion years ago

• 4 mins

The Search for Human Origins

The key discoveries in east Africa and the quest to find more about our ancient ancestors

• 4 mins