395 Episodes

  1. The Spartans: Ancient Greece’s fighting machine

    Published: 7/25/2019
  2. Leeuwenhoek: The fabric seller who discovered bacteria

    Published: 7/18/2019
  3. Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A man turns into a monstrous bug

    Published: 7/11/2019
  4. Hugh Masekela: The iconic South African musician

    Published: 7/4/2019
  5. James Watt: The power of steam

    Published: 6/27/2019
  6. The Bhagavad Gita: A guide to spiritual wisdom

    Published: 6/20/2019
  7. Cnut: England's Viking king

    Published: 6/13/2019
  8. How Afghanistan won its freedom from Britain

    Published: 6/6/2019
  9. Rasputin: The Siberian mystic who charmed the Tsar

    Published: 5/30/2019
  10. The Moon from Earth

    Published: 5/23/2019
  11. Pearls: Treasures of the sea

    Published: 5/16/2019
  12. Thoreau: the writer who went to the woods

    Published: 5/9/2019
  13. Fado: Portuguese soul music

    Published: 5/2/2019
  14. Queen Njinga of Angola: Fearless fighter

    Published: 4/25/2019
  15. Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci

    Published: 4/18/2019
  16. Chess: a chequered history

    Published: 4/11/2019
  17. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas

    Published: 4/4/2019
  18. Napoleon: From empire to exile

    Published: 3/28/2019
  19. The spice trade: Selling the scents of luxury

    Published: 3/21/2019
  20. Moomin creator Tove Jansson

    Published: 3/14/2019

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