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Olympe de Gouges
May 19, 2022
49:10
Homo erectus
May 12, 2022
51:03
Polidori's The Vampyre
May 5, 2022
51:17
The Sistine Chapel
April 28, 2022
55:50
Antigone
April 21, 2022
54:11
Charisma
April 14, 2022
52:38
Seismology
April 7, 2022
49:35
The Arthashastra
March 31, 2022
56:09
In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds
March 4, 2022
1:00
Peter Kropotkin
Feb. 24, 2022
51:53
Romeo and Juliet
Feb. 17, 2022
50:13
Walter Benjamin
Feb. 10, 2022
50:32
The Temperance Movement
Feb. 3, 2022
52:25
Colette
Jan. 27, 2022
51:27
The Gold Standard
Jan. 20, 2022
49:00
Thomas Hardy's Poetry
Jan. 13, 2022
50:43
Fritz Lang
Dec. 30, 2021
55:00
The Hittites
Dec. 23, 2021
52:19
A Christmas Carol
Dec. 16, 2021
56:18
The May Fourth Movement
Dec. 9, 2021
52:57
The Battle of Trafalgar
Dec. 2, 2021
51:57
Plato's Gorgias
Nov. 25, 2021
50:03
The Decadent Movement
Nov. 18, 2021
51:22
William and Caroline Herschel
Nov. 11, 2021
50:56
The Song of Roland
Nov. 4, 2021
51:58
Corals
Oct. 28, 2021
51:35
Iris Murdoch
Oct. 21, 2021
54:25
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Oct. 14, 2021
48:43
The Manhattan Project
Oct. 7, 2021
48:20
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Sept. 30, 2021
49:33
Herodotus
Sept. 23, 2021
52:18
The Evolution of Crocodiles
Sept. 16, 2021
53:07
Shakespeare's Sonnets
June 24, 2021
Edward Gibbon
June 17, 2021
52:22
Booth's Life and Labour Survey
June 10, 2021
48:47
Kant's Copernican Revolution
June 3, 2021
53:17
The Interregnum
May 27, 2021
52:24
Journey to the West
May 20, 2021
51:49
Longitude
May 13, 2021
50:28
The Second Barons' War
May 6, 2021
56:32
Ovid
April 29, 2021
49:31
The Franco-American Alliance 1778
April 22, 2021
50:51
Arianism
April 15, 2021
50:06
Pierre-Simon Laplace
April 8, 2021
48:10
The Russo-Japanese War
April 1, 2021
48:51
David Ricardo
March 25, 2021
49:51
The Bacchae
March 18, 2021
52:11
The Late Devonian Extinction
March 11, 2021
49:05
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
March 4, 2021
53:00
Marcus Aurelius
Feb. 25, 2021
52:36
Medieval Pilgrimage
Feb. 18, 2021
The Rosetta Stone
Feb. 11, 2021
47:02
Emilie du Châtelet
Feb. 4, 2021
49:50
Saint Cuthbert
Jan. 28, 2021
56:05
The Plague of Justinian
Jan. 21, 2021
48:31
The Great Gatsby
Jan. 14, 2021
55:34
Eclipses
Dec. 31, 2020
50:31
The Cultural Revolution
Dec. 17, 2020
48:09
John Wesley and Methodism
Dec. 10, 2020
51:32
Fernando Pessoa
Dec. 3, 2020
The Zong Massacre
Nov. 26, 2020
52:04
Albrecht Dürer
Nov. 12, 2020
54:00
Mary Astell
Nov. 5, 2020
51:34
Piers Plowman
Oct. 29, 2020
51:01
Maria Theresa
Oct. 22, 2020
50:37
Alan Turing
Oct. 15, 2020
53:08
Deism
Oct. 8, 2020
48:17
Macbeth
Oct. 1, 2020
51:45
Cave Art
Sept. 24, 2020
48:01
Pericles
Sept. 17, 2020
48:55
Frankenstein
March 19, 2020
55:09
The Covenanters
March 12, 2020
53:49
Paul Dirac
March 5, 2020
50:47
The Evolution of Horses
Feb. 27, 2020
50:10
The Valladolid Debate
Feb. 20, 2020
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Feb. 13, 2020
51:10
George Sand
Feb. 6, 2020
54:57
Alcuin
Jan. 30, 2020
56:03
Solar Wind
Jan. 23, 2020
55:13
The Siege of Paris 1870-71
Jan. 16, 2020
52:05
Catullus
Jan. 9, 2020
52:33
Tutankhamun
Dec. 26, 2019
53:14
Auden
Dec. 19, 2019
53:25
Coffee
Dec. 12, 2019
55:11
Lawrence of Arabia
Dec. 5, 2019
51:46
Li Shizhen
Nov. 28, 2019
Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
Nov. 21, 2019
52:59
Crime and Punishment
Nov. 14, 2019
52:40
The Treaty of Limerick
Nov. 7, 2019
Hybrids
Oct. 31, 2019
50:49
Robert Burns
Oct. 24, 2019
52:28
The Time Machine
Oct. 17, 2019
51:55
Rousseau on Education
Oct. 10, 2019
51:41
Dorothy Hodgkin
Oct. 3, 2019
The Rapture
Sept. 26, 2019
51:14
Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
Sept. 19, 2019
Lorca
July 4, 2019
53:24
Doggerland
June 27, 2019
54:02
The Mytilenaean Debate
June 20, 2019
The Inca
June 13, 2019
52:49
Sir Thomas Browne
June 6, 2019
52:44
President Ulysses S Grant
May 30, 2019
55:12
Kinetic Theory
May 23, 2019
51:38
Bergson and Time
May 9, 2019
51:20
The Gordon Riots
May 2, 2019
50:19
Nero
April 25, 2019
51:24
A Midsummer Night's Dream
April 18, 2019
54:53
The Evolution of Teeth
April 11, 2019
49:15
The Great Irish Famine
April 4, 2019
57:19
The Danelaw
March 28, 2019
Gerard Manley Hopkins
March 21, 2019
47:39
Authenticity
March 14, 2019
50:33
William Cecil
March 7, 2019
51:23
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Feb. 28, 2019
49:59
Pheromones
Feb. 21, 2019
49:09
Judith beheading Holofernes
Feb. 14, 2019
49:30
Aristotle's Biology
Feb. 7, 2019
Owain Glyndwr
Jan. 31, 2019
Emmy Noether
Jan. 24, 2019
Samuel Beckett
Jan. 17, 2019
48:58
Papal Infallibility
Jan. 10, 2019
Venus
Dec. 27, 2018
50:25
The Poor Laws
Dec. 20, 2018
50:18
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Dec. 13, 2018
The Thirty Years War
Dec. 6, 2018
50:35
The Long March
Nov. 29, 2018
50:05
Hope
Nov. 22, 2018
53:01
Horace
Nov. 15, 2018
48:57
Marie Antoinette
Nov. 8, 2018
49:07
Free Radicals
Nov. 1, 2018
The Fable of the Bees
Oct. 25, 2018
50:42
Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Oct. 18, 2018
Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Oct. 11, 2018
Edith Wharton
Oct. 4, 2018
49:28
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sept. 27, 2018
49:48
Automata
Sept. 20, 2018
52:23
The Iliad
Sept. 13, 2018
48:02
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
Henrik Ibsen
May 31, 2018
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
George and Robert Stephenson
April 12, 2018
Roman Slavery
April 5, 2018
50:40
Tocqueville: Democracy in America
March 22, 2018
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
Cephalopods
Feb. 1, 2018
47:19
Cicero
Jan. 25, 2018
49:16
Anna Akhmatova
Jan. 18, 2018
The Siege of Malta, 1565
Jan. 11, 2018
49:52
Hamlet
Dec. 28, 2017
Beethoven
Dec. 21, 2017
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
The Congress of Vienna
Oct. 19, 2017
Aphra Behn
Oct. 12, 2017
Constantine the Great
Oct. 5, 2017
48:24
Wuthering Heights
Sept. 28, 2017
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
Rosa Luxemburg
April 13, 2017
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
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
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
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Jan. 12, 2017
48:03
Johannes Kepler
Dec. 29, 2016
48:42
Four Quartets
Dec. 22, 2016
The Gin Craze
Dec. 15, 2016
52:06
Harriet Martineau
Dec. 8, 2016
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
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
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
45:30
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
46:27
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
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