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Air Stewardesses

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

• 4 mins

The Wright Brothers

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

• 4 mins

The Rock Documentary

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

• 4 mins

The Beatles at the Cavern Club

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

• 4 mins

Building the Moscow Underground

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

• 4 mins

Bangladesh's Boatmen

Abdul Khalek Bapari earns his living carrying goods and people up and down the river

• 4 mins

A Century of Art

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

• 28 mins

The Father of Conceptual Art

French artist Marcel Duchamp questioned 19th Century ideas about art and aesthetic beauty

• 4 mins

On Holiday with Picasso

Tony Penrose spent much of his childhood staying with Pablo Picasso in the South of France

• 4 mins

Painting Through the Cultural Revolution

Huang Yongyu on his responsibility to express political views through painting

• 4 mins

Life with Frida Kahlo

Guadalupe Rivera Marin on the atmosphere of the Blue House, living with artist Frida Kahlo

• 4 mins

A Sculptor of Africa

El Anatsui transforms the ancient symbols of African art and Africa's colonial heritage

• 4 mins

Becoming a Jesuit Priest

"I felt a call from God. It has given me an opportunity to serve others"

• 4 mins

Russian Soviet State Atheism

Ravil Bukharaev on his relation to Islam after growing up with Soviet state atheism

• 4 mins

Living in Colonial Mozambique

"I realised I didn't have a chance to be myself: as an African, as a Mozambican."

• 4 mins

Writing the Century

Authors and actors choose their book of the century and explain what makes it so special

• 28 mins

Working with Samuel Beckett

"I looked at his work like music and to me it was rhythm and pauses, and lack of pauses."

• 4 mins

French Novelist Marcel Proust

Edmund White talks about Marcel Proust's view of love and art

• 4 mins

Cinematographer

Oscar nominated Jack Cardiff talks about his long career in cinema

• 4 mins

Zapata's Peasant Army

Emeterio Pantaleon Garcia learned to fight with the guerilla leader during the revolution

• 4 mins

The Dictionary of Newfoundland English

Annie Proulx's choice for her book of the 21st Century captures a vibrant dialect

• 4 mins

Armenian Genocide

"We suffered very much... I feel I can't say anything because it is done and finished"

• 4 mins

Working with Ayatollah Khomeini

Ebrahim Yazdi was deputy prime minister and foreign minister Iran's provisional government

• 4 mins

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