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How We Lived
Culture, language and traditions that shaped our history.
 Entertainment, Art and Literature
Huang Yongyu Painting the century
The importance of art by Painters, sculptors and those who knew them.
 
Elvin Jones Sounds of the century
Composers, Musicians and singers who should be remembered for their contribution to music.
Books
Five authors and actors choose their book of the century and explain why they should be read.
 
Ray Harry Hausen Moving Pictures
Celebrate that most twentieth century entertainment - the cinema.
 Evolution and Culture
Jane Goodall Origins
How our understanding of the origins of man and planet earth has developed.
 
Elizabeth Wurtzell Mental Health
Analyzing the mind in the last hundred years.
Hilda Samson The Inheritors
Stories of life for the world's indigenous people.
 
Millicent Obaso The Family
Marriage, children and divorce, how the family has changed.
Hugh Lunghi Language
The importance of language over the last hundred years.
   
 From the Farm to the City
Workers of the world
What working life was like in the twentieth century.
 
Working the Land
How the way we farm has changed in the last hundred years.
Ermanno Spadoni On the Road
Five people share their memories of life on the road.
 
Tatyana Victorovna Fyodorova Transport
A journey through the twentieth century by boat, by train and by plane.
The City
What it was like to build them, govern them but most importantly to live in them.
   
 Great Events
Antonio Trinidad Boom and Bust
From the Wall Street crash to the richest lottery winner in the world.
 
Mary Quant Clothes
Five people reflect on what clothes meant to them in the last century.
Bob Geldof Best Day of my life
Bob Geldof and others recall moments of pleasure, and personal achievement.
   
 
 
 
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