The Forum
A podcast by BBC World Service - Saturdays
398 Episodes
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Paul Robeson: Singer, actor and civil rights activist
Published: 22/10/2020 -
Telling the time: From sundials to satnav
Published: 15/10/2020 -
Writer Jorge Luis Borges: Mixing the magical with the mundane
Published: 8/10/2020 -
Elizabeth Fry: 'The angel of prisons'
Published: 1/10/2020 -
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Published: 24/09/2020 -
Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler
Published: 17/09/2020 -
Who were the Huguenots?
Published: 10/09/2020 -
Smallpox: The defeat of the speckled monster
Published: 3/09/2020 -
Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet
Published: 27/08/2020 -
Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Published: 20/08/2020 -
Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction
Published: 13/08/2020 -
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Published: 6/08/2020 -
Picasso, artist of reinvention
Published: 30/07/2020 -
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Published: 23/07/2020 -
Chaucer, father of English poetry
Published: 16/07/2020 -
Up close with tango
Published: 9/07/2020 -
Valkyries: Fierce women of war
Published: 2/07/2020 -
Silk routes: 2000 years of trading
Published: 25/06/2020 -
Bertha von Suttner: A champion of peace
Published: 18/06/2020 -
Joan of Arc: Making a martyr
Published: 11/06/2020
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