398 Episodes

  1. How we work: Redesigning the office

    Published: 2/02/2023
  2. When money died: The world's worst inflation

    Published: 26/01/2023
  3. The writer Rachel Carson who fought insecticide wars

    Published: 19/01/2023
  4. Why do we have a seven-day week?

    Published: 12/01/2023
  5. Forugh Farrokhzad: A trailblazing voice for women in Iran

    Published: 5/01/2023
  6. The Cynics: Counter-culture from Ancient Greece

    Published: 29/12/2022
  7. Calories: How to fuel a human

    Published: 22/12/2022
  8. Belarus: The crossroads of Eastern Europe

    Published: 15/12/2022
  9. Margaret Sanger: Mother of birth control

    Published: 8/12/2022
  10. Alice Guy: The first female movie mogul

    Published: 1/12/2022
  11. The Epic of Gilgamesh: A quest for immortality

    Published: 24/11/2022
  12. Uruguay 1930: The first football World Cup

    Published: 17/11/2022
  13. Moths: The story of the butterfly of the night

    Published: 10/11/2022
  14. The end of civilisation: Bronze Age collapse

    Published: 3/11/2022
  15. From straw poll to opinion poll

    Published: 27/10/2022
  16. Süleyman the Magnificent: longest-reigning Ottoman sultan

    Published: 20/10/2022
  17. William Cobbett: Champion of rural workers

    Published: 11/10/2022
  18. How the paparazzi transformed photojournalism

    Published: 6/10/2022
  19. The Sun: Myths and magnetism

    Published: 29/09/2022
  20. A forgotten founder of climate science: Eunice Newton Foote

    Published: 21/09/2022

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