The Forum
A podcast by BBC World Service - Saturdays
398 Episodes
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Algae: Slime life
Published: 9/12/2021 -
The original Goths
Published: 2/12/2021 -
Laskarina Bouboulina, the mother of modern Greece
Published: 25/11/2021 -
Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science
Published: 18/11/2021 -
The Malayan Emergency
Published: 11/11/2021 -
The Devils: Dostoevsky’s novel of political evil
Published: 4/11/2021 -
A focus on spectacles
Published: 28/10/2021 -
Sarah Bernhardt: Queen of stage and screen
Published: 21/10/2021 -
A dirty history of diamonds
Published: 14/10/2021 -
The story of Evita
Published: 7/10/2021 -
Sushi: The Japanese dish with an ancient tradition
Published: 30/09/2021 -
Toni Morrison: The legacy of a literary legend
Published: 23/09/2021 -
Algorithms: From the ancients to the internet
Published: 16/09/2021 -
Louder! How the electric guitar conquered popular music
Published: 9/09/2021 -
Luigi Pirandello: Italian dramatist who brought chaos to the stage
Published: 2/09/2021 -
Mars: A history of the Red Planet
Published: 26/08/2021 -
A radiant light: The Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah
Published: 19/08/2021 -
Sailing by the stars: The pioneering voyages of David Lewis
Published: 12/08/2021 -
Inside the mind of crime writer Patricia Highsmith
Published: 5/08/2021 -
Ibn Sina: The Persian polymath
Published: 2/08/2021
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