398 Episodes

  1. Babylon, city of wonders

    Published: 4/06/2020
  2. Aesop and the Fables

    Published: 28/05/2020
  3. Goethe: The story of colour

    Published: 21/05/2020
  4. The California Gold Rush

    Published: 14/05/2020
  5. The 1918 Spanish Flu: The mother of all pandemics

    Published: 30/04/2020
  6. Gerard Mercator: The man who revolutionised mapmaking

    Published: 23/04/2020
  7. Gretta Cousins: champion of Irish and Indian women

    Published: 16/04/2020
  8. Natsume Soseki: Japan’s great novelist

    Published: 9/04/2020
  9. In search of the good life: Epicurus and his philosophy

    Published: 2/04/2020
  10. Artemisia Gentileschi: The painter who took on the men

    Published: 26/03/2020
  11. Guide dogs for the blind: a history

    Published: 19/03/2020
  12. Oscar Niemeyer: Brazil's king of curves

    Published: 12/03/2020
  13. Haile Selassie: the last emperor of Ethiopia

    Published: 5/03/2020
  14. Emilie du Chatelet: a free-spirited physicist

    Published: 27/02/2020
  15. Man v mosquito

    Published: 20/02/2020
  16. The magic of bronze

    Published: 13/02/2020
  17. Li Bai: The revered Chinese poet

    Published: 6/02/2020
  18. Nefertiti: The beguiling Egyptian Queen

    Published: 30/01/2020
  19. The amazing Dr Darwin

    Published: 23/01/2020
  20. A history of honey

    Published: 16/01/2020

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