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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

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The Bloomsbury Group

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

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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

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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

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Bosnia War Injuries

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

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Conflict Resolution

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

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Forcible Exile to Kazakhstan

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

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The Family in Guatemala

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

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First Black American Boxer Becomes Heavyweight Champion

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

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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

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Reichstag, New German Parliament

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

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Environment

How our awareness of our environment has become important over the 20th Century

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Winning the Grand National

When Bob Champion was diagnosed with cancer, the dream of winning the event kept him going

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Winning the Spanish Lottery

Bar owner Antonio Trinidad recalls the day he discovered he had won the Spanish El Gordo

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Wheelchair Racing Athlete

Tanni Grey recalls the Barcelona Paralympics when she won four gold medals

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Lebanon's Slide from Affluence into Anarchy

Christine Garabedian was only nine when the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975

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The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Doctor Otto von Habsburg is the son of Charles, last King-Emperor of Austria-Hungary who followed the autocratic Francis Joseph. Dr von Habsburg remembers the desperate attempts of his father to prevent the disintegration of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918.

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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge

Van Nath is one of a handful of people to survive the notoriously brutal Tuol Sleng prison

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Oliver Berlau became one of the first East Germans to breach the Berlin Wall in 1989

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Instability and Revolution

From the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall

• 29 mins

The First UN Global Environment Conference

Environmentalist Maurice Strong grew up in rural Canada with a strong interest in nature

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The Schuman Plan

Max Kohnstamm on his part in creating the European Coal and Steel Authority in 1952

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The Father of Underwater Photography

Hans Hass developed a waterproof casing for cameras so that he could both dive and film

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The French Resistance

Marcel Cerbu transmitted intelligence to London until he was captured in 1943

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