398 Episodes

  1. Algae: Slime life

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

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

    Published: 11/25/2021
  4. Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science

    Published: 11/18/2021
  5. The Malayan Emergency

    Published: 11/11/2021
  6. The Devils: Dostoevsky’s novel of political evil

    Published: 11/4/2021
  7. A focus on spectacles

    Published: 10/28/2021
  8. Sarah Bernhardt: Queen of stage and screen

    Published: 10/21/2021
  9. A dirty history of diamonds

    Published: 10/14/2021
  10. The story of Evita

    Published: 10/7/2021
  11. Sushi: The Japanese dish with an ancient tradition

    Published: 9/30/2021
  12. Toni Morrison: The legacy of a literary legend

    Published: 9/23/2021
  13. Algorithms: From the ancients to the internet

    Published: 9/16/2021
  14. Louder! How the electric guitar conquered popular music

    Published: 9/9/2021
  15. Luigi Pirandello: Italian dramatist who brought chaos to the stage

    Published: 9/2/2021
  16. Mars: A history of the Red Planet

    Published: 8/26/2021
  17. A radiant light: The Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah

    Published: 8/19/2021
  18. Sailing by the stars: The pioneering voyages of David Lewis

    Published: 8/12/2021
  19. Inside the mind of crime writer Patricia Highsmith

    Published: 8/5/2021
  20. Ibn Sina: The Persian polymath

    Published: 8/2/2021

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