成人快手

Live Aid

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

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Women Ordained in the Anglican Church

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

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Orthodox Judaism

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

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Worship of the Japanese Emperor

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

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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

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The Rise of English in Nigeria

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

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Churchill's Interpreter

Hugh Lunghi describes interpreting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

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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.

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Being an Interpreter at the EU Headquarters

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

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Origins

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

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The Big Bang Theory

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

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The Search for Human Origins

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

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Heroes and Heroines

Personal recollections of Gandhi, Eva Peron, Gamal Abdel Nasser, JFK and Princess Diana

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Circumnavigating the World in a Hot Air Balloon

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones were the first to go round the world non-stop

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Steam-driven Fairground Organs

George Cushing went to the fair in 1910 and saw fairground organs for the first time

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Swing Dancing

Norma Miller was 12 when she was spotted dancing on the street in New York

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The Origins of Life on Earth

In 1952 Stanley Miller showed how life could have started on earth 3.5 billion years ago

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The Search for Dinosaur Fossils

Tim Leland wanted find the world's first dinosaurs - he went to Valle de la Luna

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One of the Best Days of My Life

Happiness and personal achievement - dancing, going to a fair and the birth of a child

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The Start of Modernism in Music

Igor Stravinsky's work had a revolutionary impact which marked the start of modernism

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Sounds of the Century

Stravinsky, The Beatles, Jazz, Maria Callas and Bob Dylan

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Jazz Drumming

Elvin Jones joined the Benny Goodman Orchestra in New York in 1953

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Singing with Callas

Giuseppe di Stefano on her fiery temperament and her ability to move audiences to tears

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Rail Travel by Steam Engine

"Ladies always wore hats in the dining car..." George Behrende recalls steam travel

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Air Stewardesses

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

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The Wright Brothers

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

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The Rock Documentary

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

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The Beatles at the Cavern Club

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

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Building the Moscow Underground

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

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