399 Episodes

  1. Dido of Carthage: A love story gone wrong

    Published: 10/29/2020
  2. Paul Robeson: Singer, actor and civil rights activist

    Published: 10/22/2020
  3. Telling the time: From sundials to satnav

    Published: 10/15/2020
  4. Writer Jorge Luis Borges: Mixing the magical with the mundane

    Published: 10/8/2020
  5. Elizabeth Fry: 'The angel of prisons'

    Published: 10/1/2020
  6. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    Published: 9/24/2020
  7. Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler

    Published: 9/17/2020
  8. Who were the Huguenots?

    Published: 9/10/2020
  9. Smallpox: The defeat of the speckled monster

    Published: 9/3/2020
  10. Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet

    Published: 8/27/2020
  11. Secrets of the Great Pyramid

    Published: 8/20/2020
  12. Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction

    Published: 8/13/2020
  13. The Fall of the Roman Empire

    Published: 8/6/2020
  14. Picasso, artist of reinvention

    Published: 7/30/2020
  15. Tolstoy: War and Peace

    Published: 7/23/2020
  16. Chaucer, father of English poetry

    Published: 7/16/2020
  17. Up close with tango

    Published: 7/9/2020
  18. Valkyries: Fierce women of war

    Published: 7/2/2020
  19. Silk routes: 2000 years of trading

    Published: 6/25/2020
  20. Bertha von Suttner: A champion of peace

    Published: 6/18/2020

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