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Pinochet's Operation Condor

A covert co-operation to arrest people considered to be activists in 1970s Latin America

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Secret State

The secretive world of spies and state security systems of the 20th Century

• 28 mins

Cold War Spy

"All spies were doing the same thing. Quite often spies gave each other information"

• 4 mins

First World War Spy Mata Hari

Blamed for the deaths of 50,000 men, she was famous for her seductions and pillow talk

• 4 mins

Becoming a Red Guard

The movement that sought to bring about violent change throughout Chinese society

• 4 mins

The Swastika

The symbol of the Nazis, with roots in mythology, the swastika is now banned in Germany

• 4 mins

Atomic Mushroom Cloud

The 20th Century's symbol of destruction

• 4 mins

McDonald's Golden Arches

Helen Steel and Dave Morris reflect on what fast food branding means to them

• 4 mins

Mickey Mouse

What Mickey Mouse means to John Hench, the man who spent his life drawing him

• 4 mins

Images of the Century

Mickey Mouse, the swastika, the atomic mushroom cloud, McDonalds' golden arches and Mao

• 26 mins

The Family in the Great Lakes, Africa

Millicent Obaso works as a reproductive health officer across 14 countries

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The Family in China

Xia Li Qin accepts China's one child policy and doesn't know anyone who has more than one

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Oral Rehydration in Egypt

How simple medicines saved Hytham Abdel Ma'soud's life when he got acute diarrhoea

• 4 mins

Boom and Bust in Thailand

Siriwat Wittikun made millions investing in the Thai stock market but he lost it all

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The Family

From divorce to traditional values, from being an only child to modern parenting

• 28 mins

The Family in Sri Lanka

Rohan Ponniah compares his father's role to his own experience of parenting

• 4 mins

The Bloomsbury Group

Frances Partridge on being a member of the unconventional artistic and intellectual group

• 4 mins

Birth Control in Sweden and Beyond

Born one of a family of seven Ernst Michanek campaigned to make birth control available

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Health

Life-saving developments in health: antibiotics, oral rehydration and transplant surgery

• 28 mins

Disability in Italy

Roberto Vitali has been a paraplegic since he had severe injury in a head-on collision

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The Family in Zimbabwe

Tute Chigama makes and plays the thumb piano - he compares life with his grandaughter

• 4 mins

Bosnia War Injuries

Psychiatrist Dr Vahida Demirovic treated the bereaved and the injured in the Balkans War

• 4 mins

Conflict Resolution

Giandomenico Picco was a UN diplomat dealing with conflict resolution in Lebanon

• 4 mins

Forcible Exile to Kazakhstan

During 1936 - 1956 Stalin exiled by force 3.5 million people who he regarded as traitors

• 4 mins

The Family in Guatemala

Ikor Allegria Guzman thinks traditional values are deteriorating in her part of Guatemala

• 3 mins

First Black American Boxer Becomes Heavyweight Champion

Jack Johnson won the title in 1908, but his biggest challenge was overcoming prejudice

• 4 mins

Eyewitnesses

Fighting with the IRA, the Long March, Stalin deportation and the bombing of Sarajevo

• 28 mins

Fighting for the IRA from 1919 to 1921

At 98 Dan Keating says there will never be peace in Ireland until the country is united

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Founder of Modern Environmentalism

John Muir's letters influenced the setting up of National Parks across the US

• 4 mins

Reichstag, New German Parliament

It has natural ventilation and a power station in its basement that runs on renewable fuel

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