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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
Silk routes: 2000 years of trading
Durée : 39min 41s
Bertha von Suttner: A champion of peace
Durée : 39min 41s
Joan of Arc: Making a martyr
Durée : 39min 25s
Babylon, city of wonders
Durée : 39min 39s
Aesop and the Fables
Durée : 39min 54s
Goethe: The story of colour
Durée : 39min 48s
The California Gold Rush
Durée : 39min 43s
Hazel Scott: Jazz star and barrier breaker
Durée : 41min 53s
The 1918 Spanish Flu: The mother of all pandemics
Durée : 39min 54s
Gerard Mercator: The man who revolutionised mapmaking
Durée : 39min 26s
Gretta Cousins: champion of Irish and Indian women
Durée : 39min 34s
Natsume Soseki: Japan’s great novelist
Durée : 39min 29s
Artemisia Gentileschi: The painter who took on the men
Durée : 39min 54s
Oscar Niemeyer: Brazil's king of curves
Durée : 40min 14s
Haile Selassie: the last emperor of Ethiopia
Durée : 39min 29s
Emilie du Chatelet: a free-spirited physicist
Durée : 39min 55s
Man v mosquito
Durée : 39min 19s
The magic of bronze
Durée : 39min 40s
Li Bai: The revered Chinese poet
Durée : 41min 30s
Nefertiti: The beguiling Egyptian Queen
Durée : 38min 52s
The amazing Dr Darwin
Durée : 39min 52s
A history of honey
Durée : 39min 21s
Highlife: The sound of Ghana
Durée : 39min 30s
Yiddish: A story of survival
Durée : 40min 12s
A history of the restaurant
Durée : 39min 57s
Eleanor Roosevelt: Redefining the First Lady
Durée : 40min 28s
Ibn Khaldun: 14th Century sage
Durée : 39min 55s
Cyrano de Bergerac: Big-nosed hero
Durée : 39min 30s
The Scythians: Masters of the steppe
Durée : 39min 48s
The Russian civil war: How the Soviets rose to power
Durée : 40min 4s
Fridtjof Nansen: Norway's great explorer
Durée : 41min 37s
Rudolf Nureyev: Superstar Russian dancer
Durée : 39min 16s
John Harvey Kellogg: The ‘wellness’ pioneer
Durée : 39min 11s
Indigo: the bluest blue
Durée : 39min 57s
The Cat: In from the wild
Durée : 39min 23s
Manuela Sáenz: South America’s revolutionary heroine
Durée : 39min 18s
Electric telegraph: the first worldwide web
Durée : 39min 18s
The history of opium
Durée : 40min 27s
Albert Camus: Embracing life’s absurdity
Durée : 40min 20s
The submarine: Stealth machine
Durée : 40min 23s
Fernando Pessoa: The man who multiplied himself
Durée : 40min 12s
Einstein: Revolution in time and space
Durée : 39min 32s
Imhotep: The man behind The Mummy
Durée : 38min 3s
Andy Warhol: The prince of Pop Art
Durée : 41min 30s
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell's dystopian classic
Durée : 40min 0s
The Spartans: Ancient Greece’s fighting machine
Durée : 39min 40s
Leeuwenhoek: The fabric seller who discovered bacteria
Durée : 39min 47s
Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A man turns into a monstrous bug
Durée : 41min 30s
Hugh Masekela: The iconic South African musician
Durée : 39min 42s
James Watt: The power of steam
Durée : 43min 53s
The Bhagavad Gita: A guide to spiritual wisdom
Durée : 39min 31s
Cnut: England's Viking king
Durée : 39min 38s
How Afghanistan won its freedom from Britain
Durée : 39min 57s
Rasputin: The Siberian mystic who charmed the Tsar
Durée : 40min 1s
The Moon from Earth
Durée : 39min 35s
Pearls: Treasures of the sea
Durée : 40min 26s
Thoreau: the writer who went to the woods
Durée : 39min 58s
Fado: Portuguese soul music
Durée : 39min 53s

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