398 Episodes

  1. Paul Robeson: Singer, actor and civil rights activist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 6/18/2020
  20. Joan of Arc: Making a martyr

    Published: 6/11/2020

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