395 Episodes

  1. Why do we have a seven-day week?

    Published: 1/12/2023
  2. Forugh Farrokhzad: A trailblazing voice for women in Iran

    Published: 1/5/2023
  3. The Cynics: Counter-culture from Ancient Greece

    Published: 12/29/2022
  4. Calories: How to fuel a human

    Published: 12/22/2022
  5. Belarus: The crossroads of Eastern Europe

    Published: 12/15/2022
  6. Margaret Sanger: Mother of birth control

    Published: 12/8/2022
  7. Alice Guy: The first female movie mogul

    Published: 12/1/2022
  8. The Epic of Gilgamesh: A quest for immortality

    Published: 11/24/2022
  9. Uruguay 1930: The first football World Cup

    Published: 11/17/2022
  10. Moths: The story of the butterfly of the night

    Published: 11/10/2022
  11. The end of civilisation: Bronze Age collapse

    Published: 11/3/2022
  12. From straw poll to opinion poll

    Published: 10/27/2022
  13. Süleyman the Magnificent: longest-reigning Ottoman sultan

    Published: 10/20/2022
  14. William Cobbett: Champion of rural workers

    Published: 10/11/2022
  15. How the paparazzi transformed photojournalism

    Published: 10/6/2022
  16. The Sun: Myths and magnetism

    Published: 9/29/2022
  17. A forgotten founder of climate science: Eunice Newton Foote

    Published: 9/21/2022
  18. Dreams: Prophecy, propaganda and psychoanalysis

    Published: 9/14/2022
  19. Yves Saint Laurent: Fashion revolutionary

    Published: 9/8/2022
  20. Brazil's Palmares: A beacon of freedom

    Published: 9/1/2022

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