The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In 1961 hundreds of Jewish children were smuggled from Morocco to Israel
In July 1959, two Cold War leaders argued over whose system was best
Fifty years since the first transatlantic broadcast
The story of two Australians who berfriended a lion in London, and freed him in Africa
Sixty years ago a young art historian got to know the greatest painter in the world
How Scottish workers took over their shipyards and warded off the threat of closure
It is 30 years since the launch of the first 24 hour music TV channel
The coup that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power in Libya.
A child dreams of world peace and writes a letter to the leader of the Soviet Union
In August 1980 a huge bomb destroyed much of Bologna railway station in Italy
In 1947 a Norwegian adventurer sailed across the Pacific on a wooden raft
In 1972 the dictator Idi Amin announced that all Asians had 90 days to leave Uganda
He was a Canadian sporting superstar but in 1988 he was sold to an American team
A Chagos Islander talks of Britain's expulsion of his people from their homeland.
It is 10 years since the closure of the world's first music-sharing website - Napster
In August 1979 the seaside town of Brighton decided to open a nudist beach
On 13 August 1961, East German soldiers and construction workers began the Berlin Wall
It is 60 years since The Goon Show first hit the airwaves
During the 1930s the people of the US faced widespread economic hardship
The picnic that led to the first breaches of the Iron Curtain in 1989
The failed attempt to overthrow the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachov in August 1991
The bomb that destroyed the UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003.
The theft of the Mona Lisa from the museum of the Louvre in Paris in August 1911
Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care, the book that revolutionised child care.
