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Eunuchs and empires
Durée : 39min 40s
Vikings and their quest for silver
Durée : 39min 21s
Fertiliser and poison gas: The legacy of chemist Fritz Haber
Durée : 41min 12s
Emperor Nero: Bad boy of Ancient Rome
Durée : 39min 31s
Mirror Mirror on the wall: The history of the looking glass
Durée : 39min 14s
Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist
Durée : 39min 38s
The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War
Durée : 41min 58s
Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent
Durée : 40min 53s
Money: From coin to cryptocurrency
Durée : 39min 56s
Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet
Durée : 39min 31s
The invention of numbers
Durée : 39min 44s
Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist
Durée : 39min 16s
Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound
Durée : 40min 43s
Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy
Durée : 39min 50s
Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer
Durée : 40min 48s
Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city
Durée : 39min 46s
Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham
Durée : 39min 43s
Copper: From mining to microprocessors
Durée : 39min 31s
Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery
Durée : 39min 38s
Boudica, warrior queen
Durée : 39min 46s
Harry Houdini: Escape artist and showman
Durée : 39min 37s
Antarctic Treaty: Protecting the icy continent
Durée : 39min 49s
Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece
Durée : 39min 49s
Algae: Slime life
Durée : 39min 37s
The original Goths
Durée : 39min 53s
Laskarina Bouboulina, the mother of modern Greece
Durée : 41min 2s
Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science
Durée : 39min 45s
The Malayan Emergency
Durée : 39min 40s
The Devils: Dostoevsky’s novel of political evil
Durée : 40min 18s
A focus on spectacles
Durée : 39min 43s
Sarah Bernhardt: Queen of stage and screen
Durée : 39min 53s
A dirty history of diamonds
Durée : 39min 54s
The story of Evita
Durée : 39min 20s
Sushi: The Japanese dish with an ancient tradition
Durée : 40min 43s
Toni Morrison: The legacy of a literary legend
Durée : 41min 2s
Algorithms: From the ancients to the internet
Durée : 39min 34s
Louder! How the electric guitar conquered popular music
Durée : 39min 39s
Luigi Pirandello: Italian dramatist who brought chaos to the stage
Durée : 39min 20s
Mars: A history of the Red Planet
Durée : 39min 26s
A radiant light: The Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah
Durée : 40min 4s
Sailing by the stars: The pioneering voyages of David Lewis
Durée : 39min 43s
Inside the mind of crime writer Patricia Highsmith
Durée : 42min 50s
Ibn Sina: The Persian polymath
Durée : 26min 39s
The Panama Canal: The real story behind the engineering triumph
Durée : 39min 31s
Ida Pfeiffer: 19th Century globetrotter
Durée : 39min 45s
Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast
Durée : 39min 47s
Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
Durée : 40min 14s
Tracing the roots of ancient trees
Durée : 40min 0s
The Wizard of Oz: A homegrown American fairy tale
Durée : 39min 30s
Falconry: The history of hunting with birds of prey
Durée : 40min 13s
Aramaic: An imperial language without an empire
Durée : 39min 49s
X-rays: New ways of seeing
Durée : 39min 58s
Machiavelli, master of power
Durée : 39min 16s
The birth of the modern car
Durée : 39min 50s
Ukulele - a history of Hawaii's national instrument
Durée : 39min 27s
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, groundbreaking fort builder
Durée : 39min 51s
The census: A snapshot of life
Durée : 39min 42s
Unravelling the history of knitting
Durée : 40min 41s
One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America
Durée : 39min 32s
Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal
Durée : 39min 47s
Pauline Viardot: 19th-Century diva
Durée : 39min 4s
The One Thousand and One Nights
Durée : 40min 27s
Adventures with dentures: The story of dentistry
Durée : 40min 20s
BR Ambedkar: The Dalit hero of India
Durée : 41min 14s
Making waves: the history of swimming
Durée : 40min 18s
Abraham Maslow’s psychology of human needs
Durée : 39min 45s
The Kalevala: the Finnish epic that inspired a nation
Durée : 39min 35s
Sister Juana, a great mind of Mexico
Durée : 40min 2s
Mermaids: Tales from the deep
Durée : 39min 10s
Eleusinian Mysteries: Secret ceremonies promising happiness
Durée : 39min 30s
Toussaint L’Ouverture: Hero of the Haitian slave rebellion
Durée : 39min 24s
Olympe de Gouges: France’s forgotten revolutionary heroine
Durée : 40min 37s
Alexandre Yersin and the race to fight the plague
Durée : 39min 48s
Famous hats in history
Durée : 39min 49s
Mugham: the sound of Azerbaijan
Durée : 39min 43s
The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire
Durée : 39min 17s
Umm Kulthum: Egypt’s singing superstar
Durée : 39min 46s
Alexandre Dumas: The man behind the Musketeers
Durée : 39min 34s
Unlocking the mysteries of cuneiform tablets
Durée : 36min 33s
First impressions: The printing press
Durée : 40min 0s
The woman whose cells changed medical history
Durée : 40min 11s
Comenius, a pioneer of lifelong learning
Durée : 40min 0s
Dido of Carthage: A love story gone wrong
Durée : 39min 49s
Paul Robeson: Singer, actor and civil rights activist
Durée : 39min 43s
Telling the time: From sundials to satnav
Durée : 40min 12s
Writer Jorge Luis Borges: Mixing the magical with the mundane
Durée : 39min 50s
Elizabeth Fry: 'The angel of prisons'
Durée : 40min 10s
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Durée : 39min 34s
Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler
Durée : 39min 54s
Who were the Huguenots?
Durée : 40min 45s
Smallpox: The defeat of the speckled monster
Durée : 40min 33s
Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet
Durée : 39min 43s
Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Durée : 40min 6s
Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction
Durée : 39min 40s
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Durée : 39min 54s
Picasso, artist of reinvention
Durée : 39min 26s
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Durée : 40min 15s
Chaucer, father of English poetry
Durée : 39min 30s
Up close with tango
Durée : 39min 35s
Valkyries: Fierce women of war
Durée : 39min 12s

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