00.00 – 02.59
An introduction to the final programme of the series in which we see the Berlin Wall come down and the end of Communism in eastern Europe.
03.00 – 06.27
With a punk-rock soundtrack, we travel back to Britain in 1979 and see the impact of Margaret Thatcher and her radical new policies.
06.28 – 10.49
We see the rapid decline and fall of the Soviet Empire, and learn about the policies of Mikhail Gorbachev – Glasnost and Perestroyka.
10.50 – 16.38
The Balkan states emerge as communism gives way to capitalism. In Sarajevo, Niall describes the actions of Serb paramilitary death squads and the role of Slobodan Milosevic.
16.39 – 21.06
At the Bosnian town of Visegrad, we learn about the terrible fate of the Muslims in this region.
21.07 – 24.44
Niall describes the incidences of rape during the Bosnian conflict.
24.45 – 33.59
We learn how China was able to modernise its economic basis whilst retaining the Communist state.
34.00 – 39.25
Back to 1979, we witness the religious revolution in Iran as the Ayatollah Khomeini takes control. We see his policy of increasing the birth rate, at a time when the opposite is happening in Europe.
39.26 – 41.45
Ceuta in Spain – the frontline between North Africa and Europe – is the place where migrants enter Europe, both legally and illegally.
41.46 – 44.07
Niall looks back at the first stage of globalisation, before the First World War.
44.08 – 45.41
A reminder of the root causes of the wars of the 20th century and the lessons to be learnt if the same violence is to be avoided in the 21st century.
45.42 – 47.34
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