The story of our times told by the people who were there.
How the American president Theodore Roosevelt nearly died in the Amazon in 1914.
In July 1978 the first baby to be conceived in a laboratory was born in England.
It is 60 years since the Argentine first lady died.
How a mole in the KGB sent secrets to France and the USA in 1981.
Eighteen years ago a little girl was raped and murdered - her killing changed US law.
It was one of the defining battles of the First World War
The first voyage to the North Pole under the icecap. Ken Carr remembers Nautilus's mission
The story of Thor Heyerdahl's crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki.
It's 50 years since the death of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's ultimate sex symbol.
The story of a survivor of Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia.
How an American swimmer crossed the "Ice Curtain" between the USA and the Soviet Union.
How seven Soviet intellectuals held a pioneering protest in Moscow in 1968.
It's quarter of a century since the world's most popular cosmetic treatment was discovered
At the 1960 Olympics in Rome an Ethiopian athlete stunned the world.
The Scottish anarchist and the plot to kill General Franco.
Shawn Fanning talks about how he founded the file sharing website Napster.
For six years following the end of World War II, Japan was occupied by the US.
The daughter of the last British viceroy in India remembers the transfer of power in 1947.
How a 1968 television special revived the career of the King of Rock and Roll.
The parcel bomb attack that killed anti-apartheid activist Ruth First in 1982.
Jacqueline Du Pre makes one of the most famous classical recordings of the 20th Century.
The assassination of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotksy in Mexico City in 1940.
The year the England cricket captain said he was going to make the West Indies "grovel".
How broadcasting throughout a devastating storm made a Miami weatherman into a local hero.
