395 Episodes

  1. The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War

    Published: 4/6/2022
  2. Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent

    Published: 3/31/2022
  3. Money: From coin to cryptocurrency

    Published: 3/20/2022
  4. Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet

    Published: 3/17/2022
  5. The invention of numbers

    Published: 3/10/2022
  6. Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist

    Published: 3/3/2022
  7. Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound

    Published: 2/24/2022
  8. Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy

    Published: 2/17/2022
  9. Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer

    Published: 2/10/2022
  10. Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city

    Published: 2/3/2022
  11. Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham

    Published: 1/27/2022
  12. Copper: From mining to microprocessors

    Published: 1/20/2022
  13. Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery

    Published: 1/13/2022
  14. Boudica, warrior queen

    Published: 1/6/2022
  15. Harry Houdini: Escape artist and showman

    Published: 12/30/2021
  16. Antarctic Treaty: Protecting the icy continent

    Published: 12/23/2021
  17. Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece

    Published: 12/16/2021
  18. Algae: Slime life

    Published: 12/9/2021
  19. The original Goths

    Published: 12/2/2021
  20. Laskarina Bouboulina, the mother of modern Greece

    Published: 11/25/2021

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