399 Episodes

  1. Coal: a Burning Legacy

    Published: 15/11/2018
  2. Lifting the lid: The history of the toilet

    Published: 08/11/2018
  3. Calm in the chaos: The story of the Stoics

    Published: 01/11/2018
  4. Cambodia's ancient Khmer Empire

    Published: 27/10/2018
  5. Who was the real Cleopatra?

    Published: 20/10/2018
  6. Karl Kraus: Austria’s fearless satirist

    Published: 13/10/2018
  7. Cool: Sunglasses, style and American counter-culture

    Published: 06/10/2018
  8. Frida Kahlo: A life in colour

    Published: 29/09/2018
  9. The Jet Engine

    Published: 22/09/2018
  10. Edgar Allan Poe: Master of horror

    Published: 15/09/2018
  11. The Making of Modern Japan

    Published: 08/09/2018
  12. The American author James Baldwin

    Published: 01/09/2018
  13. The Acropolis: Cradle of democracy

    Published: 25/08/2018
  14. Friedrich Engels: The Man Behind Karl Marx

    Published: 18/08/2018
  15. Empress Nur Jahan: Leader of the Mughals

    Published: 11/08/2018
  16. Waiting for Godot: The play that changed the rules of theatre

    Published: 04/08/2018
  17. Christina of Sweden: Queen of surprises

    Published: 28/07/2018
  18. Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist

    Published: 21/07/2018
  19. Mark Twain: The 'father of American literature'

    Published: 14/07/2018
  20. Pioneers of surgical hygiene

    Published: 07/07/2018

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