The Forum
A podcast by BBC World Service - Saturdays
398 Episodes
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The Panama Canal: The real story behind the engineering triumph
Published: 29/07/2021 -
Ida Pfeiffer: 19th Century globetrotter
Published: 22/07/2021 -
Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast
Published: 15/07/2021 -
Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
Published: 8/07/2021 -
Tracing the roots of ancient trees
Published: 1/07/2021 -
The Wizard of Oz: A homegrown American fairy tale
Published: 24/06/2021 -
Falconry: The history of hunting with birds of prey
Published: 17/06/2021 -
Aramaic: An imperial language without an empire
Published: 10/06/2021 -
X-rays: New ways of seeing
Published: 3/06/2021 -
Machiavelli, master of power
Published: 27/05/2021 -
The birth of the modern car
Published: 20/05/2021 -
Ukulele - a history of Hawaii's national instrument
Published: 13/05/2021 -
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, groundbreaking fort builder
Published: 6/05/2021 -
The census: A snapshot of life
Published: 29/04/2021 -
Unravelling the history of knitting
Published: 22/04/2021 -
One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America
Published: 15/04/2021 -
Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal
Published: 8/04/2021 -
Pauline Viardot: 19th-Century diva
Published: 1/04/2021 -
The One Thousand and One Nights
Published: 25/03/2021 -
Adventures with dentures: The story of dentistry
Published: 18/03/2021
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