The Forum

399 Episodes

1. Fertiliser and poison gas: The legacy of chemist Fritz Haber

   Published: 5/4/2022
2. Emperor Nero: Bad boy of Ancient Rome

   Published: 4/28/2022
3. Mirror Mirror on the wall: The history of the looking glass

   Published: 4/21/2022
4. Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist

   Published: 4/14/2022
5. The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 12/23/2021