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Palestinian Exodus
Audeh Rantisi on being exiled to the West Bank in July 1948
Shah of Iran is Exiled
Farah Pahlavi, the Shah's wife on living elsewhere, from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas
Building the 20th Century
Architecture and its development - how building design changed over the 20th Century
Retaining Dignity Under Apartheid
"Our freedom is such a precious thing for us in South Africa"
Improving Prisons in India
Kiran Bedi converted Tihar jail into a place of reformation - an ashram
Fighting Under the Israeli Flag
Netiva Ben Yehu joined the Jewish underground to fight against the British and the Arabs
Votes for Women in Britain
Protests, hunger strikes, sleep deprivation and prison were endured by suffragettes
Last of Their Generation
Remembering Stalin, the French Resistance, underwater photography and the Bloomsbury Group
Aspects of Mental Health
Patients and professionals talk about the mental health issues that have affected them
Women of the World
Women who have made their mark on the 20th Century from a prison reformer to a suffragette
Changing Attitudes to Women through Indian Cinema
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Filming History
Stanley Forman filmed world events to show what war really meant for ordinary people
Moving From the Country to the City
"I'd never seen a building with tiles. I'd been living in a village in a round hut"
African Film-maker
Portraying injustice a theme of Jean Marie Teno's films. It's got him into trouble
Pioneering Movie Special Effects
Ray Harryhausen was inspired to become an animator when watching King Kong in 1933
The Transit Strike of New York is Dealt with by Mayor
Ed Koch encouraged people to "walk over" the bridges that connect New York's islands
Quantum Mechanics
Hans Bethe on the most influential branch of physics to have emerged in the 20th Century
Helsinki - Living in Darkness
The Finnish city's festival of light is cheering when it's dark for six months of the year
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
The original manuscript is strewn with notations, calculations - and errors
Chaos Theory
The complexities of real life - from weather patterns or the changes in world markets
Singing for Bangladesh and Independence
Naila Zaman Khan sung to raise the spirits of refugees fleeing east Pakistan
La Pasionaria's Spanish Civil War
Dolores Ibarruri won her fame with her fiery oratory rallying the anti-fascist forces
The Discovery of Plate Tectonics
Why earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur, and why and how mountains form
Getting Rid of Tokyo's Rubbish
Japan's capital city generates 4 million tonnes of waste a year. How is it disposed of?
Eureka!
Scientific discoveries of the 20th Century: Einstein, quantum mechanics and DNA
Working in Genetics
Elizabeth Fisher on her work attempting to find genes involved in neurological diseases
Child in Exile in Russia
Aged seven, Vera Broido accompanied her mother in exile to Western Siberia
Marrying Outside the Caste in India
Rejected by family - Meenakshi Sundriyal from an upper class caste and Muslim Khurshid Ali
Organ Transplants
The use of anti-rejection drugs has made human organ transplants possible
Exile
Experiences of exile: from Iran, Palestine, Russia, Chile - and from family
How Antibiotics Revolutionised Healthcare
Good food and rest was the only treatment for patients with infections before the 1940s