My Century Episodes Available now

Painting Through the Cultural Revolution
Huang Yongyu on his responsibility to express political views through painting

The Father of Conceptual Art
French artist Marcel Duchamp questioned 19th Century ideas about art and aesthetic beauty

A Century of Art
Painters, sculptors and those who knew them discuss their work and the importance of art

The Rock Documentary
DA Pennebaker filmed Bob Dylan on tour in Britain as the civil rights movement began

The Beatles at the Cavern Club
Pat Delaney was a doorman at the Cavern club, Liverpool, UK when "four scruffs turned up"

Building the Moscow Underground
As a young woman Tatyana Fyodorova volunteered to build the Moscow Metro in 1932

Bangladesh's Boatmen
Abdul Khalek Bapari earns his living carrying goods and people up and down the river

Rail Travel by Steam Engine
"Ladies always wore hats in the dining car..." George Behrende recalls steam travel

Air Stewardesses
At 77 Loretta Burke was one of the oldest working flight attendants in the world

The Wright Brothers
Wilkinson Wright explains how his great-uncles built the first working aeroplane