From the coronation of the enduring British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, to the rise of Iranian dictator Khomeini, to the impeachment trials of US president Bill Clinton, the first episode counts down from 101 to 89 events that have marked the last century. From the discovery of King Tut in The Valley of Kings to the evacuation of Dunkirk, from the Bandung Conference to the death of Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru, our first episode spans the globe and touches on wars, crimes, politics, entertainment; and starts with the Y2K Scare – an event of mass paranoia.
The history of mankind is a never-ending story of change, revolution, and evolution – but surely no span of a hundred years can claim to have changed the world so dramatically, rapidly or so irreversibly as the Twentieth Century. At the start of the twentieth century the map of the world was coloured to illustrate the pervasiveness of the great...
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