399 Episodes

  1. Cavalry and code-breaking: The Polish-Soviet war

    Published: 2/9/2023
  2. How we work: Redesigning the office

    Published: 2/2/2023
  3. When money died: The world's worst inflation

    Published: 1/26/2023
  4. The writer Rachel Carson who fought insecticide wars

    Published: 1/19/2023
  5. Why do we have a seven-day week?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 9/29/2022

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