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The attack on Lod Airport
A survivor on how gunmen opened fire at an Israeli airport in 1972, killing 26 people.

Georgia O'Keeffe
One of the world's most famous woman artists remembered by her assistant

The World Festival of Black Arts
A landmark event for African artists was held in newly-independent Senegal in 1966

The museum of banned Russian art
How Igor Savitsky saved thousands of works from Stalin's censors, and started a museum

The last days of Frida Kahlo
The great Mexican artist remembered by a friend who lived with her at the end of her life

Meeting Picasso
A British art historian on becoming a friend of the great Spanish artist in the 1950s

Chasing the Marcos millions
The lawyer who's spent decades tracking the fortune of the former Philippines president

Shanghai at War
A first-hand account of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s

The first McDonald's in Moscow
The American fast-food chain was a huge hit when it opened in the Soviet Union in 1990

The murder of Kelso Cochrane
How a street killing in 1950s London led to Britain's first race relations inquiry