The Forum
A podcast by BBC World Service - Saturdays
398 Episodes
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How we work: Redesigning the office
Published: 2/02/2023 -
When money died: The world's worst inflation
Published: 26/01/2023 -
The writer Rachel Carson who fought insecticide wars
Published: 19/01/2023 -
Why do we have a seven-day week?
Published: 12/01/2023 -
Forugh Farrokhzad: A trailblazing voice for women in Iran
Published: 5/01/2023 -
The Cynics: Counter-culture from Ancient Greece
Published: 29/12/2022 -
Calories: How to fuel a human
Published: 22/12/2022 -
Belarus: The crossroads of Eastern Europe
Published: 15/12/2022 -
Margaret Sanger: Mother of birth control
Published: 8/12/2022 -
Alice Guy: The first female movie mogul
Published: 1/12/2022 -
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A quest for immortality
Published: 24/11/2022 -
Uruguay 1930: The first football World Cup
Published: 17/11/2022 -
Moths: The story of the butterfly of the night
Published: 10/11/2022 -
The end of civilisation: Bronze Age collapse
Published: 3/11/2022 -
From straw poll to opinion poll
Published: 27/10/2022 -
Süleyman the Magnificent: longest-reigning Ottoman sultan
Published: 20/10/2022 -
William Cobbett: Champion of rural workers
Published: 11/10/2022 -
How the paparazzi transformed photojournalism
Published: 6/10/2022 -
The Sun: Myths and magnetism
Published: 29/09/2022 -
A forgotten founder of climate science: Eunice Newton Foote
Published: 21/09/2022
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