成人快手

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

"It's about the meeting of the European culture... with that of an Igbo tribe"

• 4 mins

Becoming a Journalist in Africa

African journalist Cameron Duodu reported on South Africa, from Sharpville to Mandela

• 4 mins

Said's Autobiography Out of Place

Ahdaf Soueif says it articulates the inner conflict between the Middle East and the West

• 4 mins

Best of My Century - Freedom and Independence

From life under the British in India to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa

• 13 mins

Best of My Century - Witnesses

Defining moments of 20th Century - from the Iranian revolution to the Armenian genocide

• 28 mins

Best of My Century - Progress

The scientific and technological breakthroughs that have transformed our lives

• 13 mins

Best of My Century - Continuity and Change

Customs of an older age: harvest time with horses, hunting and letter writing

• 13 mins

Best of My Century - Human Life

Ordinary lives in the 20th Century from the washing machine to migration

• 13 mins

Germany Invades Poland

Clare Hollingworth saw rows of tanks and she knew it meant an imminent German invasion

• 4 mins

Assassination of President John F Kennedy

Jeff Franzen was six when he witnessed the assassination of President John F Kennedy

• 4 mins

Hitler Youth Courier in the F眉hrerbunker

"I was four years old when he came to power. I was a product of Nazi upbringing"

• 4 mins

A Witness to all of the 20th Century

Molly Garth was 100 on 1 January, 2000. She describes her long life

• 4 mins

Best of My Century - the Arts

Artistic highlights of the 20th Century from swing dancing, to Picasso to Samuel Beckett

• 13 mins

Best of My Century - War

Accounts from survivors of conflicts in Rwanda, Spain, Vietnam, Lebanon and Bosnia

• 13 mins

Best of My Century - World War II

Survivors of the siege of Leningrad, the Holocaust and Hiroshima

• 13 mins

Best of My Century - Communism

Stalin, the Long March, the Cultural Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall

• 13 mins