398 Episodes

  1. Lifting the lid: The history of the toilet

    Published: 8/11/2018
  2. Calm in the chaos: The story of the Stoics

    Published: 1/11/2018
  3. Cambodia's ancient Khmer Empire

    Published: 27/10/2018
  4. Who was the real Cleopatra?

    Published: 20/10/2018
  5. Karl Kraus: Austria’s fearless satirist

    Published: 13/10/2018
  6. Cool: Sunglasses, style and American counter-culture

    Published: 6/10/2018
  7. Frida Kahlo: A life in colour

    Published: 29/09/2018
  8. The Jet Engine

    Published: 22/09/2018
  9. Edgar Allan Poe: Master of horror

    Published: 15/09/2018
  10. The Making of Modern Japan

    Published: 8/09/2018
  11. The American author James Baldwin

    Published: 1/09/2018
  12. The Acropolis: Cradle of democracy

    Published: 25/08/2018
  13. Friedrich Engels: The Man Behind Karl Marx

    Published: 18/08/2018
  14. Empress Nur Jahan: Leader of the Mughals

    Published: 11/08/2018
  15. Waiting for Godot: The play that changed the rules of theatre

    Published: 4/08/2018
  16. Christina of Sweden: Queen of surprises

    Published: 28/07/2018
  17. Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist

    Published: 21/07/2018
  18. Mark Twain: The 'father of American literature'

    Published: 14/07/2018
  19. Pioneers of surgical hygiene

    Published: 7/07/2018
  20. The invention of numbers

    Published: 30/06/2018

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