399 Épisodes

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

    Publié: 04/05/2022
  2. Emperor Nero: Bad boy of Ancient Rome

    Publié: 28/04/2022
  3. Mirror Mirror on the wall: The history of the looking glass

    Publié: 21/04/2022
  4. Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist

    Publié: 14/04/2022
  5. The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War

    Publié: 06/04/2022
  6. Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent

    Publié: 31/03/2022
  7. Money: From coin to cryptocurrency

    Publié: 20/03/2022
  8. Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet

    Publié: 17/03/2022
  9. The invention of numbers

    Publié: 10/03/2022
  10. Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist

    Publié: 03/03/2022
  11. Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound

    Publié: 24/02/2022
  12. Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy

    Publié: 17/02/2022
  13. Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer

    Publié: 10/02/2022
  14. Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city

    Publié: 03/02/2022
  15. Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham

    Publié: 27/01/2022
  16. Copper: From mining to microprocessors

    Publié: 20/01/2022
  17. Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery

    Publié: 13/01/2022
  18. Boudica, warrior queen

    Publié: 06/01/2022
  19. Harry Houdini: Escape artist and showman

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

    Publié: 23/12/2021

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