395 Episodes

  1. The California Gold Rush

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 1/16/2020
  18. Highlife: The sound of Ghana

    Published: 1/9/2020
  19. Yiddish: A story of survival

    Published: 1/2/2020
  20. A history of the restaurant

    Published: 12/26/2019

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