395 Episodes

  1. Eleanor Roosevelt: Redefining the First Lady

    Published: 12/19/2019
  2. Ibn Khaldun: 14th Century sage

    Published: 12/12/2019
  3. Cyrano de Bergerac: Big-nosed hero

    Published: 12/5/2019
  4. The Scythians: Masters of the steppe

    Published: 11/28/2019
  5. The Russian civil war: How the Soviets rose to power

    Published: 11/21/2019
  6. Fridtjof Nansen: Norway's great explorer

    Published: 11/14/2019
  7. Rudolf Nureyev: Superstar Russian dancer

    Published: 11/7/2019
  8. John Harvey Kellogg: The ‘wellness’ pioneer

    Published: 10/31/2019
  9. Indigo: the bluest blue

    Published: 10/24/2019
  10. The Cat: In from the wild

    Published: 10/17/2019
  11. Manuela Sáenz: South America’s revolutionary heroine

    Published: 10/10/2019
  12. Electric telegraph: the first worldwide web

    Published: 10/3/2019
  13. The history of opium

    Published: 9/26/2019
  14. Albert Camus: Embracing life’s absurdity

    Published: 9/19/2019
  15. Fernando Pessoa: The man who multiplied himself

    Published: 9/5/2019
  16. Einstein: Revolution in time and space

    Published: 8/29/2019
  17. Imhotep: The man behind The Mummy

    Published: 8/22/2019
  18. Andy Warhol: The prince of Pop Art

    Published: 8/15/2019
  19. Coco Chanel: French style icon

    Published: 8/8/2019
  20. Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell's dystopian classic

    Published: 8/1/2019

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