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The man who changed the way people thought about mental illness. RD Laing became famous in the 1960s for rejecting traditional psychiatric drug treatments in favour of talking to patients. Photo: 3rd February 1967: British psychiatrist R D Laing attends a discussion on the legalisation of marijuana. (Photo by Stan Meagher/Express/Getty Images)

In the 1980s, Bulgaria's communist regime launched a brutal policy of forced assimilation against the country's ethnic Turkish minority. People's names were forcibly changed to sound more Slavic, the Turkish language was banned, cultural and religious practices outlawed. In 1989, Bulgaria's government issued passports to Bulgarian Turks, and hundreds of thousands fled the country to neighbouring Turkey. We hear the account of one family caught up in the policy the Bulgarian government called "The Revival Process". Photo: Bulgarian Turks joining a mass exodus to Turkey in 1989 (BBC)

In post-WW2 Japan, musician Shinichi Suzuki developed a new method of teaching the violin - which would spread around the world. Brothers Hideya and Toshiya Taida were two of the first students to graduate from the Suzuki Method.IMAGE: Children of the Suzuki Method music school play the violin at founder Shinichi Suzuki's memorial concert in Tokyo on March 28, 2008. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images