How the late inventor of cat's eyes, Percy Shaw, got his eureka moment.
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In 1971 Edward Carpenter discovered plastic floating about in the Atlantic Ocean.
The action caused national outrage as bodies piled up.
Anne Wood tells the story of how she created the Teletubbies.
A special body suit for people with cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and strokes has had some remarkable results.
Europe's first dedicated black music station, Dread Broadcasting Corporation
Kitty Baxter was evacuated on the first day of the war.
Tonton Zola Moukoko gained a cult following after featuring in Championship Manager 01/02.
Ernest Marke was attacked by a white mob in Liverpool.
In April 1945, the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Belsen concentration camp.
Vet Carlos Valderrama describes castrating Pablo Escobar's hippo in the wild.
Racism fuelled Phil Magbotiwan's determination to open his own nightclub.
Lance Armstrong said he'd apologise to the man he sued for reporting on his doping
In the 1970s, an international campaign demanded that governments recognise the value of unpaid work done in the home, primarily by women.
A ground-breaking Indian cookery programme was presented by the Indian actor turned food writer Madhur Jaffrey.
Organiser Sara Waddell Lewinstein looks back on the first Gay Games
In June 1973, the nightclub Pacha opened in Ibiza and it changed the island forever.
Nisha Popat looks back 50 years to when dictator Idi Amin forced her family out of Uganda
“We won’t move!” – The first ‘forced removals’ of apartheid-era South Africa
The love story behind the invention of the Pap smear test.
