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Best of My Century - Progress
The scientific and technological breakthroughs that have transformed our lives
Best of My Century - Continuity and Change
Customs of an older age: harvest time with horses, hunting and letter writing
Best of My Century - Human Life
Ordinary lives in the 20th Century from the washing machine to migration
Germany Invades Poland
Clare Hollingworth saw rows of tanks and she knew it meant an imminent German invasion
Assassination of President John F Kennedy
Jeff Franzen was six when he witnessed the assassination of President John F Kennedy
Hitler Youth Courier in the Führerbunker
"I was four years old when he came to power. I was a product of Nazi upbringing"
A Witness to all of the 20th Century
Molly Garth was 100 on 1 January, 2000. She describes her long life
Best of My Century - the Arts
Artistic highlights of the 20th Century from swing dancing, to Picasso to Samuel Beckett
Best of My Century - War
Accounts from survivors of conflicts in Rwanda, Spain, Vietnam, Lebanon and Bosnia
Best of My Century - World War II
Survivors of the siege of Leningrad, the Holocaust and Hiroshima
Best of My Century - Communism
Stalin, the Long March, the Cultural Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall
