399 Episodes

  1. Dido of Carthage: A love story gone wrong

    Published: 29/10/2020
  2. Paul Robeson: Singer, actor and civil rights activist

    Published: 22/10/2020
  3. Telling the time: From sundials to satnav

    Published: 15/10/2020
  4. Writer Jorge Luis Borges: Mixing the magical with the mundane

    Published: 08/10/2020
  5. Elizabeth Fry: 'The angel of prisons'

    Published: 01/10/2020
  6. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    Published: 24/09/2020
  7. Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler

    Published: 17/09/2020
  8. Who were the Huguenots?

    Published: 10/09/2020
  9. Smallpox: The defeat of the speckled monster

    Published: 03/09/2020
  10. Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet

    Published: 27/08/2020
  11. Secrets of the Great Pyramid

    Published: 20/08/2020
  12. Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction

    Published: 13/08/2020
  13. The Fall of the Roman Empire

    Published: 06/08/2020
  14. Picasso, artist of reinvention

    Published: 30/07/2020
  15. Tolstoy: War and Peace

    Published: 23/07/2020
  16. Chaucer, father of English poetry

    Published: 16/07/2020
  17. Up close with tango

    Published: 09/07/2020
  18. Valkyries: Fierce women of war

    Published: 02/07/2020
  19. Silk routes: 2000 years of trading

    Published: 25/06/2020
  20. Bertha von Suttner: A champion of peace

    Published: 18/06/2020

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