398 Episodes

  1. Emperor Nero: Bad boy of Ancient Rome

    Published: 28/04/2022
  2. Mirror Mirror on the wall: The history of the looking glass

    Published: 21/04/2022
  3. Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist

    Published: 14/04/2022
  4. The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War

    Published: 6/04/2022
  5. Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent

    Published: 31/03/2022
  6. Money: From coin to cryptocurrency

    Published: 20/03/2022
  7. Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet

    Published: 17/03/2022
  8. The invention of numbers

    Published: 10/03/2022
  9. Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist

    Published: 3/03/2022
  10. Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound

    Published: 24/02/2022
  11. Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy

    Published: 17/02/2022
  12. Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer

    Published: 10/02/2022
  13. Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city

    Published: 3/02/2022
  14. Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham

    Published: 27/01/2022
  15. Copper: From mining to microprocessors

    Published: 20/01/2022
  16. Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery

    Published: 13/01/2022
  17. Boudica, warrior queen

    Published: 6/01/2022
  18. Harry Houdini: Escape artist and showman

    Published: 30/12/2021
  19. Antarctic Treaty: Protecting the icy continent

    Published: 23/12/2021
  20. Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece

    Published: 16/12/2021

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