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Looking through a Family Album

Dorothy Childs on her family photos that captured key moments of the 20th Century

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Making Clothes in Gambia

Dressmaker Margery Liwali talks about one of Gambia's most popular professions

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Moving from Venezuela's Rainforest

Indigenous Venezuelan Hilda Samson worries about her community losing their culture

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Traditional Native American Storyteller

Liz Campbell tells the story of Poia - how the Blackfeet people got the sun dance

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The Sami People of Northern Europe

Pekka Aikio is a member of a group that have traditionally lived by herding reindeer

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Australia's Stolen Generation

Cecil Dickson was taken away from his parents when he was just four years old

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The Hadza People of Tanzania

Simon Charles is part of a community who still lives by hunting and gathering

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Clothes

The mini skirt, the blackshirt, the headscarf, Gambian dressmaking and a bride-to-be

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Before Washing Machines - Wash Day

Joanna Roberts remembers the endless hours that women spent doing the weekly laundry

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Inheritors

The 20th Century through the eyes of the world's indigenous people

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Language

Translators, adopting English, storytellers and endangered languages

• 28 mins

Giving Birth in Zanzibar

Mahfoudha Alley Hamid remembers in a potent combination of pain and pleasure

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Still Lives - omnibus edition

Photojournalism, altering photos in Soviet times and a family photo album

• 28 mins

Live Aid

Bob Geldof organised Live Aid concert to raise money for famine victims in Ethiopia

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Women Ordained in the Anglican Church

Angela Berners Wilson was one of the first to be ordained in the Church of England

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Orthodox Judaism

Johanen Eickhoff on how becoming more observant means he has gained a life of spirituality

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Worship of the Japanese Emperor

Kazuo Chiba talks about the Japanese Emperor and the worship of him as a deity

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I Believe

Liberation theology, growing up with Soviet atheism and the divine emperor in Japan

• 28 mins

The Storytelling Tradition in North America

Dovie Thomason tries to find truths from stories that are universal for any era

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The Rise of English in Nigeria

"It's a language of upward mobility. It's a language of opportunity"

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Churchill's Interpreter

Hugh Lunghi describes interpreting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

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Khinalig - a Dying Language

High in the Caucasus mountains of Azerbaijan is the village of Khinalig where speaker Anver Mamedov is the schoolmaster. Mamedov is aware that times are changing and is worried that the Khinalig language spoken only in this village will not survive.

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Being an Interpreter at the EU Headquarters

Sandra Gallina talks about making sure that the representatives understand each other

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Origins

How the origins of man and planet Earth have developed over the 20th Century

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The Big Bang Theory

Bob Wilson on how the universe was born in an enormous explosion 14 billion years ago

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The Search for Human Origins

The key discoveries in east Africa and the quest to find more about our ancient ancestors

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Heroes and Heroines

Personal recollections of Gandhi, Eva Peron, Gamal Abdel Nasser, JFK and Princess Diana

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Circumnavigating the World in a Hot Air Balloon

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones were the first to go round the world non-stop

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Steam-driven Fairground Organs

George Cushing went to the fair in 1910 and saw fairground organs for the first time

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Swing Dancing

Norma Miller was 12 when she was spotted dancing on the street in New York

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