398 Episodes

  1. Highlife: The sound of Ghana

    Published: 9/01/2020
  2. Yiddish: A story of survival

    Published: 2/01/2020
  3. A history of the restaurant

    Published: 26/12/2019
  4. Eleanor Roosevelt: Redefining the First Lady

    Published: 19/12/2019
  5. Ibn Khaldun: 14th Century sage

    Published: 12/12/2019
  6. Cyrano de Bergerac: Big-nosed hero

    Published: 5/12/2019
  7. The Scythians: Masters of the steppe

    Published: 28/11/2019
  8. The Russian civil war: How the Soviets rose to power

    Published: 21/11/2019
  9. Fridtjof Nansen: Norway's great explorer

    Published: 14/11/2019
  10. Rudolf Nureyev: Superstar Russian dancer

    Published: 7/11/2019
  11. John Harvey Kellogg: The ‘wellness’ pioneer

    Published: 31/10/2019
  12. Indigo: the bluest blue

    Published: 24/10/2019
  13. The Cat: In from the wild

    Published: 17/10/2019
  14. Manuela Sáenz: South America’s revolutionary heroine

    Published: 10/10/2019
  15. Electric telegraph: the first worldwide web

    Published: 3/10/2019
  16. The history of opium

    Published: 26/09/2019
  17. Albert Camus: Embracing life’s absurdity

    Published: 19/09/2019
  18. Fernando Pessoa: The man who multiplied himself

    Published: 5/09/2019
  19. Einstein: Revolution in time and space

    Published: 29/08/2019
  20. Imhotep: The man behind The Mummy

    Published: 22/08/2019

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