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My Century

The story of the 20th Century, by those who were there at the era's most important moments

World Service,283 episodes

Episodes

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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
"Apartheid was all pervasive" – Dr Fazel Randera on South Africa's human rights abuses
03 Feb 1999,4 mins
Enniskillen Bombing
Noreen Hill on how her husband was severely injured at the Remembrance Day bombing
04 Feb 1999,4 mins
The Contraceptive Pill
Maureen describes her life before the pill and how it changed when she started to take it
12 Feb 1999,4 mins
Geisha Girl
Kiharu Nakamura talks about becoming a high class entertainer in Japan
12 Feb 1999,4 mins
Living with HIV/Aids
"When I discovered I was HIV positive, I knew life had to go on"
12 Feb 1999,4 mins
Deep Diver
Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard travelled 11,000 metres to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
18 Feb 1999,4 mins
Walking to the North Pole
Sue and Victoria Riches were the first British women to walk to the North Pole
18 Feb 1999,4 mins
Popularising Bungee Jumping
Bungee pioneer AJ Hackett on how he made the extreme sport popular around the world.
18 Feb 1999,4 mins
Paralympic Gold Medallist
"Disability really hasn't prevented me from doing anything at all."
18 Feb 1999,4 mins
Pushing The Limits - Women Pilots
The American pilot Fay Gillis Wells remembers her friend and fellow aviator Amelia Earhart
18 Feb 1999,4 mins
Sex Montage
How sexual attitudes changed over the 20th Century for the good - and not so good
22 Feb 1999,28 mins
The Four Minute Mile
Roger Bannister remembers the May evening in 1954 when he ran a mile in four minutes
01 Mar 1999,4 mins
First Olympic Gold Medal for Morocco
Nawal el Moutawakel remembers the race that won her Olympic gold in 1984 for 400m hurdles
02 Mar 1999,4 mins
Pushing The Limits
Accounts of people whose exploits and explorations pushed them to the limits of endurance
03 Mar 1999,28 mins
Breaking Test Cricket Records
Cricketer Brian Lara on making 375 runs for the West Indies against England
03 Mar 1999,4 mins
Four Gold Medals at the Berlin Olympics
Jesse Owens won the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and the long jump at the 1936 Olympics
05 Mar 1999,4 mins
Airport Building in China
Hong Kong's old airport Kai Tak, nostalgically remembered by pilot Jim Eckers
08 Mar 1999,4 mins
Seagram Building
The iconic Manhattan skyscraper was designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
08 Mar 1999,4 mins
Shopping Malls
Bafana Khumalo takes us on a tour of Sandtown City, the largest shopping mall in Africa
08 Mar 1999,4 mins
Traditional Egyptian Houses for the Future
Architect Adel Fahmy onn using natural building materials to construct domes and vaults
08 Mar 1999,4 mins
Building Tower Blocks
Ivor Smith was one of the architects behind the Park Hill estate in Sheffield
08 Mar 1999,4 mins
Palestinian Exodus
Audeh Rantisi on being exiled to the West Bank in July 1948
09 Mar 1999,4 mins
Shah of Iran is Exiled
Farah Pahlavi, the Shah's wife on living elsewhere, from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas
09 Mar 1999,4 mins
Building the 20th Century
Architecture and its development - how building design changed over the 20th Century
09 Mar 1999,28 mins
Retaining Dignity Under Apartheid
"Our freedom is such a precious thing for us in South Africa"
12 Mar 1999,4 mins
Improving Prisons in India
Kiran Bedi converted Tihar jail into a place of reformation - an ashram
12 Mar 1999,4 mins
Fighting Under the Israeli Flag
Netiva Ben Yehu joined the Jewish underground to fight against the British and the Arabs
13 Mar 1999,3 mins
Votes for Women in Britain
Protests, hunger strikes, sleep deprivation and prison were endured by suffragettes
13 Mar 1999,4 mins
Last of Their Generation
Remembering Stalin, the French Resistance, underwater photography and the Bloomsbury Group
14 Mar 1999,28 mins
Aspects of Mental Health
Patients and professionals talk about the mental health issues that have affected them
15 Mar 1999,28 mins