398 Episodes

  1. Babylon, city of wonders

    Published: 6/4/2020
  2. Aesop and the Fables

    Published: 5/28/2020
  3. Goethe: The story of colour

    Published: 5/21/2020
  4. The California Gold Rush

    Published: 5/14/2020
  5. The 1918 Spanish Flu: The mother of all pandemics

    Published: 4/30/2020
  6. Gerard Mercator: The man who revolutionised mapmaking

    Published: 4/23/2020
  7. Gretta Cousins: champion of Irish and Indian women

    Published: 4/16/2020
  8. Natsume Soseki: Japan’s great novelist

    Published: 4/9/2020
  9. In search of the good life: Epicurus and his philosophy

    Published: 4/2/2020
  10. Artemisia Gentileschi: The painter who took on the men

    Published: 3/26/2020
  11. Guide dogs for the blind: a history

    Published: 3/19/2020
  12. Oscar Niemeyer: Brazil's king of curves

    Published: 3/12/2020
  13. Haile Selassie: the last emperor of Ethiopia

    Published: 3/5/2020
  14. Emilie du Chatelet: a free-spirited physicist

    Published: 2/27/2020
  15. Man v mosquito

    Published: 2/20/2020
  16. The magic of bronze

    Published: 2/13/2020
  17. Li Bai: The revered Chinese poet

    Published: 2/6/2020
  18. Nefertiti: The beguiling Egyptian Queen

    Published: 1/30/2020
  19. The amazing Dr Darwin

    Published: 1/23/2020
  20. A history of honey

    Published: 1/16/2020

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