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Helsinki - Living in Darkness

The Finnish city's festival of light is cheering when it's dark for six months of the year

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Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

The original manuscript is strewn with notations, calculations - and errors

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Chaos Theory

The complexities of real life - from weather patterns or the changes in world markets

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Singing for Bangladesh and Independence

Naila Zaman Khan sung to raise the spirits of refugees fleeing east Pakistan

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La Pasionaria's Spanish Civil War

Dolores Ibarruri won her fame with her fiery oratory rallying the anti-fascist forces

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The Discovery of Plate Tectonics

Why earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur, and why and how mountains form

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Getting Rid of Tokyo's Rubbish

Japan's capital city generates 4 million tonnes of waste a year. How is it disposed of?

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Eureka!

Scientific discoveries of the 20th Century: Einstein, quantum mechanics and DNA

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Working in Genetics

Elizabeth Fisher on her work attempting to find genes involved in neurological diseases

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Child in Exile in Russia

Aged seven, Vera Broido accompanied her mother in exile to Western Siberia

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Marrying Outside the Caste in India

Rejected by family - Meenakshi Sundriyal from an upper class caste and Muslim Khurshid Ali

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Organ Transplants

The use of anti-rejection drugs has made human organ transplants possible

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Exile

Experiences of exile: from Iran, Palestine, Russia, Chile - and from family

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How Antibiotics Revolutionised Healthcare

Good food and rest was the only treatment for patients with infections before the 1940s

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Enforced Exile

Christina Navarrete recalls the sadness at being forced to leave Chile - and her family

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Using the Media to Make the World Aware of Apartheid

Helped by Miles Davis and Harry Belafonte - Hugh Masekela had a hit with Stimela

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Drinking Coffee with Fidel Castro

Andres Castillo Berna took Fidel Castro to a cafe and they talked for hours

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Mining in the USSR

Ukrainian Vladimir Titarev on how miners used to be the heroes of the Soviet State

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Workers of The World

A Russian miner, an Indonesian garment worker, City trader and a Ford plant worker

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Japan's Salarymen

Property consultant or salaryman, Hitoshi Iemura describes his job in Tokyo

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The City

What it was like to build cities, govern them but most importantly to live in them

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The Architect of Brasilia

Brasilia became Brazil's capital in 1960. Oscar Niemeyer was commissioned to build it

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Currency Trader in the UK

"It's a very combative environment" says Robert Rigg of London's finance district

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Indonesian Garment Worker

"I dream about clean work, free from oppression, free from exploitation"

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Manufacturing Model T Cars at Ford

Paul Batin arrived at the Ford Motor plant in Detroit as a young boy in 1927

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Natural Childbirth vs Caesarian Section

Angelina and her daughter Irene from Costa Rica compare their childbirth experiences

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International Adoption

Julia talks about adopting her children Iris, Hazel, Ivy and Ike from China and Vietnam

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The Introduction of Water Births

Michel Odent introduced the concept of birthing pools in French hospitals

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IVF Treatment

"The stress stays with you right through to the very end, but it's worth it"

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Finding Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann

Former Mossad agent Hermann Arndt on his part in finding Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann

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