The Forum
A podcast by BBC World Service - Saturdays
398 Episodes
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Emperor Nero: Bad boy of Ancient Rome
Published: 4/28/2022 -
Mirror Mirror on the wall: The history of the looking glass
Published: 4/21/2022 -
Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist
Published: 4/14/2022 -
The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War
Published: 4/6/2022 -
Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent
Published: 3/31/2022 -
Money: From coin to cryptocurrency
Published: 3/20/2022 -
Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet
Published: 3/17/2022 -
The invention of numbers
Published: 3/10/2022 -
Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist
Published: 3/3/2022 -
Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound
Published: 2/24/2022 -
Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy
Published: 2/17/2022 -
Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer
Published: 2/10/2022 -
Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city
Published: 2/3/2022 -
Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham
Published: 1/27/2022 -
Copper: From mining to microprocessors
Published: 1/20/2022 -
Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery
Published: 1/13/2022 -
Boudica, warrior queen
Published: 1/6/2022 -
Harry Houdini: Escape artist and showman
Published: 12/30/2021 -
Antarctic Treaty: Protecting the icy continent
Published: 12/23/2021 -
Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece
Published: 12/16/2021
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