398 Episodes

  1. Andy Warhol: The prince of Pop Art

    Published: 15/08/2019
  2. Coco Chanel: French style icon

    Published: 8/08/2019
  3. Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell's dystopian classic

    Published: 1/08/2019
  4. The Spartans: Ancient Greece’s fighting machine

    Published: 25/07/2019
  5. Leeuwenhoek: The fabric seller who discovered bacteria

    Published: 18/07/2019
  6. Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A man turns into a monstrous bug

    Published: 11/07/2019
  7. Hugh Masekela: The iconic South African musician

    Published: 4/07/2019
  8. James Watt: The power of steam

    Published: 27/06/2019
  9. The Bhagavad Gita: A guide to spiritual wisdom

    Published: 20/06/2019
  10. Cnut: England's Viking king

    Published: 13/06/2019
  11. How Afghanistan won its freedom from Britain

    Published: 6/06/2019
  12. Rasputin: The Siberian mystic who charmed the Tsar

    Published: 30/05/2019
  13. The Moon from Earth

    Published: 23/05/2019
  14. Pearls: Treasures of the sea

    Published: 16/05/2019
  15. Thoreau: the writer who went to the woods

    Published: 9/05/2019
  16. Fado: Portuguese soul music

    Published: 2/05/2019
  17. Queen Njinga of Angola: Fearless fighter

    Published: 25/04/2019
  18. Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci

    Published: 18/04/2019
  19. Chess: a chequered history

    Published: 11/04/2019
  20. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas

    Published: 4/04/2019

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