We look at endings in this final edition, the end of life, the end of war, the end of the race and even the end of Man being unable to fly across the sea.

We look at endings in this final edition, the end of life, the end of war, the end of the race and even the end of Man being unable to fly across the sea.

Advent Sunday marks our penultimate episode and, as we await the coming of the King of kings to bring in the Age of Peace, we reflect on the fall of earthly cities:Berlin in 1945Antwerp in 1576Moscow in 1812andSan Francisco in 1906

The first recording since the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we remember the coronation of Queen Victoria and have a mixed bag of reports from the burning of the Reichstag to the native communities of Scandinavia and South America as well as the death of a chimney sweep's lad.

The Battles of Agincourt and Balaclava

An horrendous account of a mastectomy in 1811, Charles Darwin on the Galapagos islands, seeing a salamander and children at play in the Lake District

WW2 Dogfight, the Blitz, DCM awarded in WW1, Princess Anne wins on Doublet, VC10 Skyjack

The assassination of the Duke of Buckingham is followed in this edition by travel writing of visits to paris and America and then eye witness reports of the beginning of World War 1 in Brussels and St Petersburg

MP ejected from House of Commons, Keir Hardie elected, Battle of Ypres 1916, MP Storehouse jailed, Marilyn Monroe dies, shipwreck off Mozambique

Indian Mutiny, Meidanek Extermintation camp, Hyde Park Riot, German rout in WW2