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Surviving Hurricane Mitch
Edgardo Rodriguez - from Honduras - talks about 1998's devastating hurricane

Surviving Hiroshima
"The mushroom cloud was rising higher and higher... it made me really fearful"

Poet Behind Bars
Jack Mapanje is Malawis most famous poet - he was put in prison without trial or charge

Surviving the Death Camps
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the concentration camps of both Auschwitz and Belsen

Lost In Space
Science fiction, the 'Space Race', discovering stars and comets, and travelling to space

Boom and Bust
German hyperinflation, the Wall Street crash, becoming a millionaire and losing it all

Working the Land
Organic farming, Soviet collectivization, the mechanisation of agriculture and rice farms

The Impact of Ford's Model T
"Previous to the Model T the average person couldn't afford an automobile"

The People's Car, the VW Beetle
The Volkswagen Beetle became popular with the allied forces in Germany after World War II

Being a Vespa Fanatic
Ermanno Spadoni recalls the days when raced around the countryside as a young man