The Forum
A podcast by BBC World Service - Saturdays
395 Episodes
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Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
Published: 7/8/2021 -
Tracing the roots of ancient trees
Published: 7/1/2021 -
The Wizard of Oz: A homegrown American fairy tale
Published: 6/24/2021 -
Falconry: The history of hunting with birds of prey
Published: 6/17/2021 -
Aramaic: An imperial language without an empire
Published: 6/10/2021 -
X-rays: New ways of seeing
Published: 6/3/2021 -
Machiavelli, master of power
Published: 5/27/2021 -
The birth of the modern car
Published: 5/20/2021 -
Ukulele - a history of Hawaii's national instrument
Published: 5/13/2021 -
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, groundbreaking fort builder
Published: 5/6/2021 -
The census: A snapshot of life
Published: 4/29/2021 -
Unravelling the history of knitting
Published: 4/22/2021 -
One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America
Published: 4/15/2021 -
Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal
Published: 4/8/2021 -
Pauline Viardot: 19th-Century diva
Published: 4/1/2021 -
The One Thousand and One Nights
Published: 3/25/2021 -
Adventures with dentures: The story of dentistry
Published: 3/18/2021 -
BR Ambedkar: The Dalit hero of India
Published: 3/11/2021 -
Making waves: the history of swimming
Published: 3/4/2021 -
Abraham Maslow’s psychology of human needs
Published: 2/25/2021
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