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Automata
Sept. 20, 2018
52:23
The Iliad
Sept. 13, 2018
48:02
Hannah Arendt (Summer Repeat)
Sept. 6, 2018
47:53
Robert Hooke (Summer Repeat)
Aug. 30, 2018
48:35
Margery Kempe and English Mysticism (Summer Repeat)
Aug. 23, 2018
45:30
Circadian Rhythms (Summer Repeat)
Aug. 16, 2018
48:28
The Gin Craze (Summer Repeat)
Aug. 9, 2018
52:28
The 12th Century Renaissance (Summer Repeat)
Aug. 2, 2018
49:59
Four Quartets (Summer Repeat)
July 26, 2018
49:05
The Science of Glass (Summer Repeat)
July 19, 2018
46:27
Jane Eyre (Summer Repeat)
July 12, 2018
46:18
William Morris
July 5, 2018
53:10
The Mexican-American War
June 28, 2018
49:06
Echolocation
June 21, 2018
51:02
Montesquieu
June 14, 2018
Persepolis
June 7, 2018
51:14
Henrik Ibsen
May 31, 2018
49:51
Margaret of Anjou
May 24, 2018
50:39
The Emancipation of the Serfs
May 17, 2018
49:54
The Mabinogion
May 10, 2018
48:26
The Almoravid Empire
May 3, 2018
49:26
The Proton
April 26, 2018
49:11
Middlemarch
April 19, 2018
51:49
George and Robert Stephenson
April 12, 2018
50:25
Roman Slavery
April 5, 2018
50:40
Hildegard of Bingen (Repeat)
March 29, 2018
45:06
Tocqueville: Democracy in America
March 22, 2018
50:51
Augustine's Confessions
March 15, 2018
47:55
The Highland Clearances
March 8, 2018
51:08
Sun Tzu and The Art of War
March 1, 2018
48:23
Rosalind Franklin
Feb. 22, 2018
49:47
Fungi
Feb. 15, 2018
48:37
Frederick Douglass
Feb. 8, 2018
52:22
Cephalopods
Feb. 1, 2018
47:19
Cicero
Jan. 25, 2018
49:16
Anna Akhmatova
Jan. 18, 2018
48:43
The Siege of Malta, 1565
Jan. 11, 2018
49:52
Hamlet
Dec. 28, 2017
52:33
Beethoven
Dec. 21, 2017
50:13
Thomas Becket
Dec. 14, 2017
52:52
Moby Dick
Dec. 7, 2017
51:00
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Nov. 30, 2017
Thebes
Nov. 23, 2017
46:49
Germaine de Stael
Nov. 16, 2017
49:57
The Picts
Nov. 9, 2017
56:45
Picasso's Guernica
Nov. 2, 2017
54:17
Feathered Dinosaurs
Oct. 26, 2017
48:17
The Congress of Vienna
Oct. 19, 2017
48:51
Aphra Behn
Oct. 12, 2017
Constantine the Great
Oct. 5, 2017
48:24
Wuthering Heights
Sept. 28, 2017
49:31
Kant's Categorical Imperative
Sept. 21, 2017
49:29
al-Biruni
Aug. 31, 2017
41:52
Bird Migration
July 6, 2017
Plato's Republic
June 29, 2017
Eugene Onegin
June 22, 2017
49:27
The American Populists
June 15, 2017
Christine de Pizan
June 8, 2017
50:15
Enzymes
June 1, 2017
48:36
Purgatory
May 25, 2017
48:38
Louis Pasteur
May 18, 2017
Emily Dickinson
May 11, 2017
48:30
The Battle of Lincoln 1217
May 4, 2017
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
April 27, 2017
46:34
Roger Bacon
April 20, 2017
50:33
Rosa Luxemburg
April 13, 2017
50:10
Pauli's Exclusion Principle
April 6, 2017
48:13
Hokusai
March 30, 2017
48:07
The Battle of Salamis
March 23, 2017
50:23
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
March 16, 2017
North and South
March 9, 2017
48:01
The Kuiper Belt
March 2, 2017
48:11
Seneca the Younger
Feb. 23, 2017
51:25
Maths in the Early Islamic World
Feb. 16, 2017
49:07
John Clare
Feb. 9, 2017
48:15
Hannah Arendt
Feb. 2, 2017
47:17
Parasitism
Jan. 26, 2017
45:45
Mary, Queen of Scots
Jan. 19, 2017
52:19
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Jan. 12, 2017
48:03
Johannes Kepler
Dec. 29, 2016
48:42
Four Quartets
Dec. 22, 2016
48:31
The Gin Craze
Dec. 15, 2016
52:06
Harriet Martineau
Dec. 8, 2016
51:01
Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
Dec. 1, 2016
49:32
Baltic Crusades
Nov. 24, 2016
46:51
Justinian's Legal Code
Nov. 17, 2016
47:05
The Fighting Temeraire
Nov. 10, 2016
45:58
Epic of Gilgamesh
Nov. 3, 2016
46:52
John Dalton
Oct. 27, 2016
45:40
The 12th Century Renaissance
Oct. 20, 2016
49:23
Plasma
Oct. 13, 2016
45:53
Lakshmi
Oct. 6, 2016
47:09
Animal Farm
Sept. 29, 2016
51:17
Zeno's Paradoxes
Sept. 22, 2016
46:30
The Invention of Photography
July 7, 2016
48:46
Sovereignty
June 30, 2016
47:21
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
June 23, 2016
The Bronze Age Collapse
June 16, 2016
47:12
Penicillin
June 9, 2016
46:35
Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
June 2, 2016
44:45
The Gettysburg Address
May 26, 2016
48:55
The Muses
May 19, 2016
45:29
Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
May 12, 2016
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
May 5, 2016
46:43
Euclid's Elements
April 28, 2016
45:36
1816, the Year Without a Summer
April 21, 2016
45:32
The Neutron
April 14, 2016
The Sikh Empire
April 7, 2016
44:57
Agrippina the Younger
March 31, 2016
46:09
Aurora Leigh
March 24, 2016
Bedlam
March 17, 2016
46:57
The Maya Civilization
March 10, 2016
46:33
The Dutch East India Company
March 3, 2016
46:12
Mary Magdalene
Feb. 25, 2016
44:34
Robert Hooke
Feb. 18, 2016
Rumi's Poetry
Feb. 11, 2016
46:44
Chromatography
Feb. 4, 2016
47:14
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Jan. 28, 2016
44:49
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Jan. 21, 2016
Saturn
Jan. 14, 2016
46:55
Tristan and Iseult
Dec. 31, 2015
45:12
Michael Faraday
Dec. 24, 2015
45:51
Circadian Rhythms
Dec. 17, 2015
48:04
Chinese Legalism
Dec. 10, 2015
45:27
Voyages of James Cook
Dec. 3, 2015
47:16
The Salem Witch Trials
Nov. 26, 2015
45:28
Emma
Nov. 19, 2015
47:27
The Battle of Lepanto
Nov. 12, 2015
48:18
P v NP
Nov. 5, 2015
The Empire of Mali
Oct. 29, 2015
47:47
Simone de Beauvoir
Oct. 22, 2015
46:00
Holbein at the Tudor Court
Oct. 15, 2015
Alexander the Great
Oct. 1, 2015
47:13
Perpetual Motion
Sept. 24, 2015
Frida Kahlo
July 9, 2015
45:37
Frederick the Great
July 2, 2015
48:19
Extremophiles
June 25, 2015
Jane Eyre
June 18, 2015
Utilitarianism
June 11, 2015
43:59
Prester John
June 4, 2015
44:41
The Science of Glass
May 28, 2015
45:57
Josephus
May 21, 2015
The Lancashire Cotton Famine
May 14, 2015
Tagore
May 7, 2015
46:36
The Earth's Core
April 30, 2015
46:41
Fanny Burney
April 23, 2015
44:25
Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
April 16, 2015
45:24
Sappho
April 9, 2015
46:02
The California Gold Rush
April 2, 2015
45:52
The Curies
March 26, 2015
47:22
Al-Ghazali
March 19, 2015
44:12
Dark Matter
March 12, 2015
45:43
Beowulf
March 5, 2015
46:29
The Eunuch
Feb. 26, 2015
The Wealth of Nations
Feb. 19, 2015
46:05
The Photon
Feb. 12, 2015
45:02
Ashoka the Great
Feb. 5, 2015
Thucydides
Jan. 29, 2015
45:39
Phenomenology
Jan. 22, 2015
Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Jan. 15, 2015
45:35
Truth
Dec. 18, 2014
42:10
Behavioural Ecology
Dec. 11, 2014
Zen
Dec. 4, 2014
45:08
Kafka's The Trial
Nov. 27, 2014
43:18
Aesop
Nov. 20, 2014
45:22
Brunel
Nov. 13, 2014
44:44
Hatshepsut
Nov. 6, 2014
45:42
Nuclear Fusion
Oct. 30, 2014
The Haitian Revolution
Oct. 23, 2014
Rudyard Kipling
Oct. 16, 2014
45:44
The Battle of Talas
Oct. 9, 2014
Julius Caesar
Oct. 2, 2014
e
Sept. 25, 2014
45:19
The Sun
July 10, 2014
Mrs Dalloway
July 3, 2014
Hildegard of Bingen
June 26, 2014
44:33
The Philosophy of Solitude
June 19, 2014
47:06
Robert Boyle
June 12, 2014
The Bluestockings
June 5, 2014
46:32
The Talmud
May 29, 2014
47:48
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
May 22, 2014
47:07
Photosynthesis
May 15, 2014
46:47
The Sino-Japanese War
May 8, 2014
The Tale of Sinuhe
May 1, 2014
Tristram Shandy
April 24, 2014
47:25
The Domesday Book
April 17, 2014
47:44
Strabo's Geographica
April 10, 2014
States of Matter
April 3, 2014
Weber's The Protestant Ethic
March 27, 2014
Bishop Berkeley
March 20, 2014
47:29
The Trinity
March 13, 2014
42:11
Spartacus
March 6, 2014
41:59
The Eye
Feb. 27, 2014
Social Darwinism
Feb. 20, 2014
41:41
Chivalry
Feb. 13, 2014
42:15
The Phoenicians
Feb. 6, 2014
Catastrophism
Jan. 30, 2014
41:54
Sources of Early Chinese History
Jan. 23, 2014
42:19
The Battle of Tours
Jan. 16, 2014
42:05
Plato's Symposium
Jan. 2, 2014
The Medici
Dec. 26, 2013
42:03
Complexity
Dec. 19, 2013
41:49
Pliny the Younger
Dec. 12, 2013
41:46
Hindu Ideas of Creation
Dec. 5, 2013
41:57
The Microscope
Nov. 28, 2013
Pocahontas
Nov. 21, 2013
41:50
The Tempest
Nov. 14, 2013
Ordinary Language Philosophy
Nov. 7, 2013
The Berlin Conference
Oct. 31, 2013
The Corn Laws
Oct. 24, 2013
The Book of Common Prayer
Oct. 17, 2013
42:00
Galen
Oct. 10, 2013
Exoplanets
Oct. 3, 2013
42:01
The Mamluks
Sept. 26, 2013
Pascal
Sept. 19, 2013
The Invention of Radio
July 4, 2013
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
June 27, 2013
42:07
The Physiocrats
June 20, 2013
Prophecy
June 13, 2013
42:06
Relativity
June 6, 2013
42:04
Queen Zenobia
May 30, 2013
Lévi-Strauss
May 23, 2013
Cosmic Rays
May 16, 2013
Icelandic Sagas
May 9, 2013
Gnosticism
May 2, 2013
Montaigne
April 25, 2013
The Putney Debates
April 18, 2013
41:56
The Amazons
April 11, 2013
42:12
Japan's Sakoku Period
April 4, 2013
42:02
Water
March 28, 2013
39:06
Alfred Russel Wallace
March 21, 2013
42:09
Chekhov
March 14, 2013
Absolute Zero
March 7, 2013
Pitt-Rivers
Feb. 28, 2013
Decline and Fall
Feb. 21, 2013
41:58
Ice Ages
Feb. 14, 2013
Epicureanism
Feb. 7, 2013
The War of 1812
Jan. 31, 2013
Romulus and Remus
Jan. 24, 2013
Comets
Jan. 17, 2013
42:13
Le Morte d'Arthur
Jan. 10, 2013
The Cult of Mithras
Dec. 27, 2012
The South Sea Bubble
Dec. 20, 2012
Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
Dec. 13, 2012
Bertrand Russell
Dec. 6, 2012
Crystallography
Nov. 28, 2012
The Borgias
Nov. 22, 2012
Simone Weil
Nov. 15, 2012
The Upanishads
Nov. 8, 2012
The Anarchy
Nov. 1, 2012
Fermat's Last Theorem
Oct. 25, 2012
Caxton and the Printing Press
Oct. 18, 2012
Hannibal
Oct. 11, 2012
Gerald of Wales
Oct. 4, 2012
The Ontological Argument
Sept. 27, 2012
The Druids
Sept. 20, 2012
The Cell
Sept. 13, 2012
Hadrian's Wall
July 12, 2012
Scepticism
July 5, 2012
Al-Kindi
June 28, 2012
41:53
Annie Besant
June 21, 2012
James Joyce's Ulysses
June 14, 2012
King Solomon
June 7, 2012
The Trojan War
May 31, 2012
41:55
Marco Polo
May 24, 2012
Clausewitz and On War
May 17, 2012
Game Theory
May 10, 2012
41:51
Voltaire's Candide
May 3, 2012
The Battle of Bosworth Field
April 26, 2012
Neoplatonism
April 19, 2012
Early Geology
April 12, 2012
George Fox and the Quakers
April 5, 2012
The Measurement of Time
March 29, 2012
Moses Mendelssohn
March 22, 2012
42:18
Vitruvius and De Architectura
March 15, 2012
Lyrical Ballads
March 8, 2012
42:17
Benjamin Franklin
March 1, 2012
Conductors and Semiconductors
Feb. 23, 2012
The An Lushan Rebellion
Feb. 16, 2012
Erasmus
Feb. 9, 2012
The Kama Sutra
Feb. 2, 2012
The Scientific Method
Jan. 26, 2012
1848: Year of Revolution
Jan. 19, 2012
