List of People's Century interviewees

The 1995 BBC/PBS documentary People's Century interviewed over one hundred persons who witnessed key events during the 20th century, including several centenarians who could recall the First World War and even earlier. Most interviewees were not well known, but may be physically recognisable from a famous photograph or image. Below are listed by nationality those persons who were interviewed, along with their occupations they were noted for, and the episodes in which they were featured.

Afghans

Gul Haydar: guerrilla

Ahmed Shah Masoud: guerrilla leader Madar Shawal: guerrilla courier

Americans

Arthur Abeles: film distributor Harold Agnew: Los Alamos scientist Martine Algier: Michigan teenager John Anderson: cinema usher Richard Ayers: law student, then environmental lawyer Alexander Azar: Fort Wayne hamburger advertiser Bill Bailey: Telegraph boy, later unemployed, later US Navy worker Carl Bagge: railway company lawyer, later coal company lobbyist Kathy Bergstrom: Los Angeles teacher Benjamin Berger: father of murdered Israeli weightlifter, David Mark Berger Dorothy Berger: mother of murdered Israeli weightlifter, David Mark Berger Paul Boatin: Ford production worker Bill Braga: New Jersey resident Georgette Braga: New Jersey resident Evelyn Brauckmiller: shipyard worker Shorty Brauckmiller: shipyard worker Beryl Bristow: Berlyn Brixner: US Army cameraman Art Buckner: Kaiser Steel steelworker, later unemployed Marjorie Brandt: Fort Wayne television viewer Tela Burt: World War I African-American soldier Dennis Byas: Kaiser Steel steelworker, later financial controller

Jacqui Ceballos: National Organization for Women organiser Amy Coen: University of Michigan student, later family planning adviser Red Cole: Ford production worker Margaret Colombo: Philco production worker Erv Dasher: Ford production worker John Deangelo: Ford production worker Elizabeth Dobynes: Fort Wayne television viewer Betty DuBrul: Levittown resident Anilu Elias: mother
Mike Eruzione: Captain, United States ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics Anna Freund: New York Yankees supporter
Manny Fried: trade union organiser
Eddie Futch: boxing coach Lois Gibbs: Love Canal activist Nellie Gillenson: emigrant Tina Grate: Los Angeles mother Ernest Green: Little Rock schoolboy
David Hackworth: US army colonel
Gail Halverson: US Air Force lieutenant and "Candy Bomber"
Lement Harris: journalist
Denis Hayes: Earth Day organiser Frankie Henry: Tennessee State University student
Don Hewitt: CBS director James Hill: Oak Ridge scientist Tom Jelley: Ford production worker Jeff Jones: Weatherman activist Sheldon Johnson: US Army soldier and Saint George, Utah resident Lloyd Kiff: ornithologist Bernadette Lafayette: civil rights activist Thomas Larkin: Stockbroker Abe Lass: Nickelodeon attendee James Lewis: army doctor Joe Liguori: spectator of Dempsey match Cy Locke: US armed forces projectionist
James Lovell: Apollo 8 astronaut
Floyd Mann: Alabama policeman David Moore: Ford foundery worker and trade unionist Mancel Milligan: forester, later Tennessee Valley Authority worker
John Morton-Finney: civil rights activist Robert Nathan: economics student Edwin Nerger: Fort Wayne priest Wally Neilsen: Marshall Aid organiser Charlie Nusser: Communist supporter Chuck O'Donahue: smelter worker Caryn Pace: Long Island resident Colleen Parro: Texas housewife Albert Powis: World War I marine Barbara "Dusty" Roads: flight attendant William Robertson: US Army lieutenant Terry Ross: Coto de Caza resident Vivian Rothstein: University of California student, later civil rights campaigner
F. Sherwood Rowland: Stanford University academic Deborah Runkle: polio sufferer Rusty Sachs: US Marine pilot Tom Saffer: US marine Yetta Sperling: emigrant
Peter Staley: AIDS activist
Helen Stephens: sprinter at Olympics Sharon Stern: polio sufferer George Stith: cotton sharecropper Loye Stoops: farmer, Dustbowl evacuee Jim Sullivan: Ford production worker and trade unionist Bill Sweinler: Mosinee schoolboy John Tekkaman: Swedish immigrant Ron Thelin: Californian boy scout, later hippy C T Vivien: Baptist minister Lorena Weeks: Atlanta telephone operator
Bill Werber: New York Yankees player Zekozy Williams: Montgomery housemaid Earl Young: diplomat Jim Zwerg: Fisk University student and freedom rider

Australians

Edward Smout: World War I medic Cec Starr: cricket supporter

Austrians

Norbert Lopper: Viennese Jew, later worker at Auschwitz

Belgians

Yvonne Mouffe: child during Great Depression Pierre Rondas: Louvain refugee

Belarusians

Sergei Butsko: villager Serafima Schibko: villager

Bosnians

Fikret Alic: Bosnian Muslim detained at Trnopolje camp Tomka Miric: Bosnian Serb

British

Sid Bailey: British Union of Fascists member Majorie Cave: TB sufferer John Cracknell: Surrey County Cricket Club supporter Burt Calver: Surrey County Cricket Club supporter Jenny Cole: London teenager Iris Davis: biscuit maker Les Ellis: TB sufferer Sally Doganis:Aldermaston Marches participant Hayden Evans: pressed steel worker, trip hammer operator Elizabeth Finn: film viewer Conrad Frost: television viewer Sidney Garner: West Ham United Football Club football supporter Lillian Gillen: crane driver Kathleen Green: Welsh film viewer Edmund Frow: Ford UK production worker Elizabeth Finn: mother Walter Hare: soldier

Karen Harrison: first female British Rail train driver
Eva Hart: Titanic survivor Jennifer Hart: League of Nations Union member Charles Hill: Vulcan engineering apprentice
Donald Hodge: child who witnessed 1899 Reg Howard: Salford apprentice mechanic John Hunter:civil defence volunteer Gertrude Jarrett: suffragette Ray Jordan: Coventry resident Rita Kaye: cinema pianist Carol Kemp: London teenager Betty Lawrence: Plymouth midwifery student Ernie Lambert: Sutherland Football Club supporter
Cecil Lewis: World War I pilot Mike Losban: Manchester teenager Billy McShane: Jarrow shipbuilder, later Jarrow Crusade marcher
Robert Mitchell: member of British Olympic water polo Walter Moran: Decca factory worker Sid Newman: Plymouth resident Donald Newton: music shop manager Geoff Nugent: member of The Undertakers Billy O'Donnell: Liverpool Football Club supporter Olga Penrose: RSPCA volunteer Daphne Richards: bus driver Amy Sears: witnessed Queen Victoria Con Shiels: Jarrow shipbuilder, later Jarrow Crusade marcher
Lord Soper: pacifist campaigner
Mary Stott: Leicester voter, then journalist Norman Tennant: World War I artillerist
Jonathan Tod: Royal Navy pilot
David Triesman: Essex University student protest leader Ena Turnbull: London cinema pianist Wendy Vause: television viewer Minnie Way: Glasgow striker b1895 Joyce Wheedon: Ford machinist George Williams: London film viewer Macinlay Wooden: soldier, then Kansas farmer Harry Young: Communist supporter

Canadians

Robert Hunter: Greenpeace President
Maurice Strong: Stockholm Conference chairman

Chileans

Justo Ballesteros: copper miner Claudina Montano Diaz: nitrates worker

Chinese

Shao Ailing: Shanghai school head Hu Benxu: Sichuan peasant farmer Zhang Baoqing: Beijing Red Guard Ho Bo: photographer Ren Fugin: Beijing street committee official Zeng Guodong: Tinjin district party secretary Jin Jingzhi: Shanghai resident He Jinhua: Henan steelworker Zhu Meichu: street singer Luo Shifa: Sichuan party official Jiao Shouyun: Beijing Red Guard Lian Tianyun: Henan steelworker Guo Jing Tong: witnessed Chinese revolution in 1911 Tong Xiangling: Shanghai opera singer Tan Xianyao: Shanghai factory worker Guao Xiuying: Beijing literacy teacher Quian Xuhui: Yunan migrant factory worker Ren Yangcheng: Henan canal worker Wang Yong: Shanghai stockbroker Qi Youyi: Beijing factory worker

Cubans

Arsenio Garcia: guerrilla Alberto Leon: guerrilla

Czechs

Josef Beldar: Czech civil defence Bohumir Kriz: WHO smallpox team member Anna Masaryka: granddaughter of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Petr Miller: metal worker Gertrud Peitsch: Sudeten German resident Jiri Stursa: schoolboy

Dutch

Rita Hendriks: Dolle Mina activist

Egyptians

Fathia El Assal: Cairo writer Ali Abdel Hamid: Cairo teacher Mahmoud: Cairo plasterer

Yasser Tawfiq: Cairo preacher

French

Raymond Abescat: Paris Exhibition attendee Marcel Batreau: World War I and II soldier Maurice Bourgeois: schoolboy Alice Clousier: Paris Exhibition attendee Etienne Crouy Chanel: aide to Édouard Daladier Jean Dubertret: Douai resident Monette Gaunt: Paris resident Romain Goupil: May 1968 protestor Arthur Herbaux: Renault production worker Raymond Jolivet: Bourges farmboy Evelyne Langey: Paris resident Michel Lequenne: French resistance member Roger Lorelliere: Renault worker and May 1968 protestor Jeanne Plouvin: witnessed first Trans-channel flight in 1909 Zenaide Provins: Renault production worker Hermine Venot-Focke: World War I nurse

Georgians

Endar Shengelai: film director

Germans

Peter Bielenburg: member of anti-Nazi resistance Gerda Bodenheimer: Jewish Berlin resident Hans Brunswig: Hamburg fireman Karl von Clemm: World War I artillerist Anna-Maria Ernst: gypsy Auschwitz survivor Luise Essig: Agriculture Ministry education worker

Josef Felder: Social Democratic Party of Germany parliamentarian Mike Frohnel: East German hospital worker Herta Grabarz: Lower Saxony villager Jurgen Kroeger: Einsatzgruppen interpreter Ilsa Kruger: Berlin resident Harald Jäger: East German border guard Hanne-Lore Lutgering: League of German Girls member Hans Margules: Jewish art student, later worker at Auschwitz Anita Moller: Berlin tunnel escapee
Hans Münch: SS doctor at Auschwitz Karl Nagerl: Munich schoolboy, later soldier Karl-Henning Oldekop: World War I infantryman Dietmar Passenheim: East German transport police officer Marie Rau: daughter of euthanised schizophrenic Barbel Reinke: East German waitress
Fritz Schilgen: Berlin Olympics torch lighter Horst Slesina: Propaganda Ministry worker Friedl Sonnenberg: young girl Reinhard Spitzy: SS officer Margarethe Stahl: child who witnessed outbreak of the First World War George Stege: Volkswagen factory worker Ernst Weckerling: World War I officer Horst Westphal: Hamburg schoolboy Mercedes Wild: Berlin child Ilse Woile: League of German Girls member Margarette Zettel: Hamburg tram conductor, then civil defence worker

Ghanaians

Geoffrey Aduamah: war veteran, later lawyer Anim Assiful: cocoa farmer Eddie Francois: civil servant

Komla Gbedema: vice chairman, Convention People's Party
E. T. Mensah: musician Beatrice Quatey: market stall keeper

Hungarians

Gergely Pongratz: independence fighter

Indians

Anil Agarwal: journalist Rahmat Bano: Jaipur television viewer Bikarma: smallpox sufferer Amravati Devi: villager Mukesh Gupta: smelter owner Buddu Harku: cataract sufferer Zafar Husain: smallpox campaigner Birenda Kaur: student Cha Kunga: World War I labourer Peter Morris: Bangalore medical scribe Vishnu Ogale: sterilised father Dutta Pai: family planning doctor Teju Raghuvir: Uttar Pradesh villager Bhairu Ram: Jaipur television viewer Rajam Ramanathan: Bangalore film viewer Satpal Saini: farmer Bano Shamshaad: Bhopal resident Asha Singh: villager

Iranians

Hadi Gaffari: mullah Mohammed Shah Hossein: Tehran carpenter Zeynab Jalili: Darioush Keshuarpad: student Maloud Khanlary: schoolgirl Saeed Manesh: schoolboy, later soldier Soroor Moradi Nazari: Tehran resident

Mohsen Rafighdoost: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's driver Mashid Amir Shahy: physics student

Italians

Evio Barretti: Pontedera Vespa factory worker Duilia Bartoli: film viewer Luigi Cavaliere: projectionist Gerardo Ciola: Naples resident Edda Furlan: Pordenone factory worker Felice Gentile: Fiat worker Giovanni Gobbi: Fiat worker Don Giovanni Lano: Turin priest Franco Ricci: film viewer Lisetta Salis: Rome resident Giovanni de Stefanis: Turin factoryworker

Japanese

Kinnojo Abe: bed salesman Tsuginori Hanamoto: Minamata Bay fisherman, later patients leader Yoshiko Hashimoto: Tokyo resident Akira Ishida: Hiroshima atom bomb survivor Tomiji Matsuda: victim of Minamata Bay accident Sumiko Morikawa: Tokyo resident Hakudo Nagatomi: soldier Jun Nagasawa: guitarist, The Three Funkies Miyoshi Ohba: rural health worker Matashichi Oshi: Lucky Dragon crewmember Katsumoto Saotome: schoolboy Nobuko Sato: Tokyo resident Taisuke Sato: Tokyo resident Hisako Sugawara: Sony factory worker Kuniyuki Takeshita: Minamata Chisso plant manager Sumiteru Taniguchi: Hiroshima atom bomb survivor Mohei Tamura: salesman Yoshihiro Yamashita: Chisso employee Suezo Uchida: Nagasaki shipbuilder

Kenyans

Waijwa Theuri: Mau Mau fighter Wangugu Gitchonga: detainee Syvia Richardson: British settler

Koreans

Yeon Bong Hak: Pohang Steel employee Park Dae Hyun: teacher Yi Chong Kak: textile worker, then union leader Kim Bok Soon: housekeeper, then New Community Movement activist Jang Chang Sun: wrestler at the Tokyo Olympics Yan Pyon Tou: forced labourer Kwak Man Young: student, then highway engineer

Israelis

Dora Schwartz: Holocaust survivor

Lithuanian

Zvi Michaeli: Holocaust survivor

Mexicans

Serafina Gallardo: shanty town dweller

Mozambiquans

Xadreque Paulino Sarea: Frelimo fighter Leia Isaia Mbazima: cotton worker

Pakistanis

Tahir Kazi: Rawalpindi shopkeeper Shazia Lal: schoolgirl

Palestinians

Abu Daoud: Black September leader

Peruvians

Luis Correa Camacho: mayor of Otuzco Maria Llanos Rudas: wife of cholera victim

Poles

Henryka Kryzwonos: Gdańsk tram driver and Solidarność leader

Romanians

Ioan Banciu: Timișoara engineer Mihai Radu: student Ioan Savu: Timișoara chemical worker Steliana Stefonoiu: Bucharest television viewer

Russians

Lev Altshuller: nuclear scientist Alyosha: Saint Petersburg street kid Mikhail Arkhipov: Magnitogorsk volunteer Tamara Banketik: child presenter Oleg Blotski: platoon commander Alexander Briansky: revolutionary in 1905 and 1917 Arkadi Brish: nuclear scientist Izo Degtyar: musician Anastasia Denisova: literacy campaign worker Sergey Evdokimov: anti-putschist tank brigade commander Tatiana Fedeorova': labourer, then Soviet parliamentarian Nina Fedorovna: Kirov Plant inspector, later unemployed Leonid Galperin: Road of Life commandant Dasha Khubova: student? Max Kleinman: factory worker, then World War I infantryman Alexei Kozlov: jazz musician Stanislava Kraskovskaya: witnessed pogroms in Russia Natasha Kuznetsova: Moscow resident

Anna Larina: wife of Nikolai Bukharin Nikolai Lukianov: revolutionary in 1905 Evgeny Mahayev: fishmonger Ksenya Matus: Leningrad Radio Orchestra oboist Mikhail Midlin: Konsomolol member, later purged Valentina Mikova: Magnitogorsk party worker Nina Motova: Ballbearing factory worker Mikhail Rozenthal: World War I soldier Oleg Rumiantsev: Kirov Plant worker, later entrepreneur Alexandra Sakharova: forced labourer Anatoly Semiriaga: Soviet Army captain, then major Ella Shistyer: student, then electrical engineer, later purged Alexandr Silvashko: Soviet Army lieutenant Elena Taranukhina: Leningrad resident
Boris Yefimov: Pravda cartoonist Lubov Zhakova: Leningrad resident

Senegalese

Amadou Barro Diene: student Majhemout Diop: party activist

Somalis

Ali Maalin: last smallpox sufferer

South Africans

Magdeline Chosane: Soweto schoolgirl Justina Coha: East London nurse Christine Hadebe: Johannesburg maid

John Kani: actor M P Lombaard: civil servant Moira Mbelu: Soweto schoolgirl Amos Msimanga: African National Congress member Ray Mahlambeni: Pan African Congress member Mbongeni Ndlovu: Johannesburg resident Dorah Ramothibe: Transvaal farmworker Eric Rothele: Soweto schoolboy
Nico Smith: theology student Tournament Vusani: General Motors worker

Sudanese

John Robien Ayai: amputee convict

Swedes

Gota Rosen: Social Democrats member

Turks

Serodor Peliganovlu: schoolboy

Ukrainians

Izrail Chernitsky: young communist Pelageya Ovcharenko: peasant Veniamin Prianichnikov: Chernobyl engineer Valery Staradumov: Chernobyl scientist

Uruguyans

Diego Lucero: football journalist

Ondino Viera: Football coach

Vietnamese

Nguyen Thi Be: child guerrilla Phan Dien: Viet Cong local leader

Võ Nguyên Giáp: Việt Minh leader Tran Thi Gung: Viet Cong guerrilla Chau Van Nhat: farmer Lam Van Phan: North Vietnamese spy
Lâm Văn Phát: South Vietnam army general