Phil Longman looks back on a year that has seen the hurlyburly of a general election campaign, and the signing of the first nuclear arms reduction agreement ever concluded by the superpowers; a year, too, of success on the field of play as England's cricketers retained the Ashes and reached the World Cup final, as Europe's golfers won the Ryder Cup on American soil and the British Open had a British winner; but also a year studded with events that can be recalled only with horror and sadness - the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, the Hungerford shootings, the Remembrance Day killings at Enniskillen and the King's Cross underground fire. Written and produced by JONATHAN BAKER