The Forum
By BBC World Service
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The programme that explains the present by exploring the past.
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Robots and reality
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Weddings: Romance and ritual
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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The unfolding history of the magazine
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Movie theatre magic
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Customer service: The rise of the doom loop
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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What makes us nostalgic?
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May 17, 2025 |
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How airports took off
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Libraries in the digital age
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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How the US dollar came to dominate the world
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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The seductive dance of charisma
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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The rise of fans and fandom
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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The enduring allure of jewellery
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Why sleep sometimes eludes us
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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The high-speed train race
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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The diary: A life page by page
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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The only way is up: A history of mountaineering
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Music on the move
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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The fight for women’s education
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May 18, 2024 |
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Feeding the world and the Green Revolution
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Etiquette
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Supermarkets
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Diplomacy
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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The story of throwaway living
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Political parties and us
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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What makes a good boss?
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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The joy and sorrow of roads
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Pets and us
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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The evolution of teenagers
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Global mass tourism
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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A deep dive into deepfakes
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May 20, 2023 |
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How the mobile phone changed everything
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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The submarine: Stealth machine
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Hazel Scott: Jazz star and barrier breaker
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The bittersweet tale of cocoa
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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The dam builders
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Alexander the Great or not so great?
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Rituals: Our anchors in a changing world
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Tropicália: the movement that defied Brazil’s dictatorship
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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How the shipping container changed the world
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Neanderthals: Meet the relatives
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Cavalry and code-breaking: The Polish-Soviet war
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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How we work: Redesigning the office
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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When money died: The world's worst inflation
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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The writer Rachel Carson who fought insecticide wars
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Why do we have a seven-day week?
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Forugh Farrokhzad: A trailblazing voice for women in Iran
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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The Cynics: Counter-culture from Ancient Greece
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Calories: How to fuel a human
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Belarus: The crossroads of Eastern Europe
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Margaret Sanger: Mother of birth control
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Alice Guy: The first female movie mogul
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A quest for immortality
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Uruguay 1930: The first football World Cup
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Moths: The story of the butterfly of the night
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The end of civilisation: Bronze Age collapse
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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From straw poll to opinion poll
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Süleyman the Magnificent: longest-reigning Ottoman sultan
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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William Cobbett: Champion of rural workers
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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How the paparazzi transformed photojournalism
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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The Sun: Myths and magnetism
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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A forgotten founder of climate science: Eunice Newton Foote
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Dreams: Prophecy, propaganda and psychoanalysis
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Yves Saint Laurent: Fashion revolutionary
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Brazil's Palmares: A beacon of freedom
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Bluegrass: Virtuoso music of Appalachia
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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The Art of War: Ancient Chinese guide to victory
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Gandhi: Architect of Indian independence
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Making scents: The story of perfume
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Eleonora Duse: The first great modern actress
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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La Malinche: Mexico's great 'traitor'
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Taras Shevchenko: The slave who became a symbol of Ukrainian independence
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The unstoppable orange
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Radio waves and plants: The life of JC Bose
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Samurai: Japan’s elite warrior class
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Ice cream: A cool history
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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The Popol Vuh: Central American epic that survived Spanish conquest
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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The Koryo Kingdom: Medieval dynasty that united Korea
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Insulin: The discovery that transformed diabetic care
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May 26, 2022 |
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Eunuchs and empires
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May 19, 2022 |
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Vikings and their quest for silver
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May 12, 2022 |
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Fertiliser and poison gas: The legacy of chemist Fritz Haber
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May 04, 2022 |
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Emperor Nero: Bad boy of Ancient Rome
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Mirror Mirror on the wall: The history of the looking glass
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Money: From coin to cryptocurrency
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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The invention of numbers
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Copper: From mining to microprocessors
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Boudica, warrior queen
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Harry Houdini: Escape artist and showman
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Antarctic Treaty: Protecting the icy continent
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Algae: Slime life
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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The original Goths
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Laskarina Bouboulina, the mother of modern Greece
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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The Malayan Emergency
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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The Devils: Dostoevsky’s novel of political evil
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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A focus on spectacles
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Sarah Bernhardt: Queen of stage and screen
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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A dirty history of diamonds
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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The story of Evita
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Sushi: The Japanese dish with an ancient tradition
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Toni Morrison: The legacy of a literary legend
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Algorithms: From the ancients to the internet
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Louder! How the electric guitar conquered popular music
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Luigi Pirandello: Italian dramatist who brought chaos to the stage
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Mars: A history of the Red Planet
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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A radiant light: The Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Sailing by the stars: The pioneering voyages of David Lewis
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Inside the mind of crime writer Patricia Highsmith
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Ibn Sina: The Persian polymath
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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The Panama Canal: The real story behind the engineering triumph
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Ida Pfeiffer: 19th Century globetrotter
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Tracing the roots of ancient trees
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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The Wizard of Oz: A homegrown American fairy tale
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Falconry: The history of hunting with birds of prey
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Aramaic: An imperial language without an empire
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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X-rays: New ways of seeing
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Machiavelli, master of power
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May 27, 2021 |
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The birth of the modern car
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May 20, 2021 |
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Ukulele - a history of Hawaii's national instrument
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May 13, 2021 |
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko, groundbreaking fort builder
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May 06, 2021 |
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The census: A snapshot of life
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Unravelling the history of knitting
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Pauline Viardot: 19th-Century diva
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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The One Thousand and One Nights
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Adventures with dentures: The story of dentistry
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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BR Ambedkar: The Dalit hero of India
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Making waves: the history of swimming
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Abraham Maslow’s psychology of human needs
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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The Kalevala: the Finnish epic that inspired a nation
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Sister Juana, a great mind of Mexico
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Mermaids: Tales from the deep
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Eleusinian Mysteries: Secret ceremonies promising happiness
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Toussaint L’Ouverture: Hero of the Haitian slave rebellion
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Olympe de Gouges: France’s forgotten revolutionary heroine
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Alexandre Yersin and the race to fight the plague
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Famous hats in history
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Mugham: the sound of Azerbaijan
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Umm Kulthum: Egypt’s singing superstar
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Alexandre Dumas: The man behind the Musketeers
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Unlocking the mysteries of cuneiform tablets
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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First impressions: The printing press
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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The woman whose cells changed medical history
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Comenius, a pioneer of lifelong learning
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Dido of Carthage: A love story gone wrong
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Paul Robeson: Singer, actor and civil rights activist
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Telling the time: From sundials to satnav
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Writer Jorge Luis Borges: Mixing the magical with the mundane
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Elizabeth Fry: 'The angel of prisons'
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Who were the Huguenots?
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Smallpox: The defeat of the speckled monster
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Secrets of the Great Pyramid
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Picasso, artist of reinvention
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Tolstoy: War and Peace
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Chaucer, father of English poetry
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Up close with tango
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Valkyries: Fierce women of war
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Silk routes: 2000 years of trading
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Bertha von Suttner: A champion of peace
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Joan of Arc: Making a martyr
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Babylon, city of wonders
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Aesop and the Fables
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May 28, 2020 |
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Goethe: The story of colour
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May 21, 2020 |
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The California Gold Rush
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May 14, 2020 |
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The 1918 Spanish Flu: The mother of all pandemics
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Gerard Mercator: The man who revolutionised mapmaking
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Gretta Cousins: champion of Irish and Indian women
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Natsume Soseki: Japan’s great novelist
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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In search of the good life: Epicurus and his philosophy
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Artemisia Gentileschi: The painter who took on the men
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Guide dogs for the blind: A history
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Oscar Niemeyer: Brazil's king of curves
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Haile Selassie: the last emperor of Ethiopia
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Emilie du Chatelet: a free-spirited physicist
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Man v mosquito
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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The magic of bronze
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Li Bai: The revered Chinese poet
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Nefertiti: The beguiling Egyptian Queen
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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The amazing Dr Darwin
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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A history of honey
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Highlife: The sound of Ghana
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Yiddish: A story of survival
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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A history of the restaurant
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Redefining the First Lady
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Ibn Khaldun: 14th Century sage
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Big-nosed hero
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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The Scythians: Masters of the steppe
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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The Russian civil war: How the Soviets rose to power
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Fridtjof Nansen: Norway's great explorer
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Rudolf Nureyev: Superstar Russian dancer
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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John Harvey Kellogg: The ‘wellness’ pioneer
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Indigo: the bluest blue
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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The Cat: In from the wild
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Manuela Sáenz: South America’s revolutionary heroine
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Electric telegraph: the first worldwide web
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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The history of opium
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Albert Camus: Embracing life’s absurdity
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Fernando Pessoa: The man who multiplied himself
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Einstein: Revolution in time and space
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Imhotep: The man behind The Mummy
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Andy Warhol: The prince of Pop Art
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Coco Chanel: French style icon
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell's dystopian classic
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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The Spartans: Ancient Greece’s fighting machine
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Leeuwenhoek: The fabric seller who discovered bacteria
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A man turns into a monstrous bug
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Hugh Masekela: The iconic South African musician
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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James Watt: The power of steam
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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The Bhagavad Gita: A guide to spiritual wisdom
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Cnut: England's Viking king
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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How Afghanistan won its freedom from Britain
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Rasputin: The Siberian mystic who charmed the Tsar
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May 30, 2019 |
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The Moon from Earth
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May 23, 2019 |
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Pearls: Treasures of the sea
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May 16, 2019 |
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Thoreau: the writer who went to the woods
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May 09, 2019 |
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Fado: Portuguese soul music
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May 02, 2019 |
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Queen Njinga of Angola: Fearless fighter
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Chess: a chequered history
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Napoleon: From empire to exile
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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The spice trade: Selling the scents of luxury
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Moomin Creator Tove Jansson
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Anaesthesia: Unwrapping oblivion
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Calouste Gulbenkian: The architect of Middle East oil
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Robinson Crusoe: The man and his island
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Lu Xun: Writing the story of New China
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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The talking drums of West Africa
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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The Top of the World
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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The Heel and the Sneaker
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Goya: Seeking truth through art
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Antigone: A drama of defiance
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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The Master and Margarita: Devilish satire
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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Fermentation: Ancient Food Alchemy
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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The Emergence of Modern Turkey
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Revealing the Gulag
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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The Iranian Coup of 1953: Overthrow of a Prime Minister
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Diaghilev and the ballet revolution
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Charlie Chaplin
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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Coal: a Burning Legacy
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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Lifting the lid: The history of the toilet
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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Calm in the chaos: The story of the Stoics
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Cambodia's ancient Khmer Empire
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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Who was the real Cleopatra?
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Oct 20, 2018 |
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Karl Kraus: Austria’s fearless satirist
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Oct 13, 2018 |
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Cool: Sunglasses, style and American counter-culture
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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Frida Kahlo: A life in colour
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Sep 29, 2018 |
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The Jet Engine
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Sep 22, 2018 |
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Edgar Allan Poe: Master of horror
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Sep 15, 2018 |
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The Making of Modern Japan
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Sep 08, 2018 |
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The American author James Baldwin
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Sep 01, 2018 |
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The Acropolis: Cradle of democracy
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Aug 25, 2018 |
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Friedrich Engels: The Man Behind Karl Marx
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Aug 18, 2018 |
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Empress Nur Jahan: Leader of the Mughals
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Aug 11, 2018 |
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Waiting for Godot: The play that changed the rules of theatre
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Aug 04, 2018 |
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Christina of Sweden: Queen of surprises
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Jul 28, 2018 |
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Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist
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Jul 21, 2018 |
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Mark Twain: The 'father of American literature'
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Jul 14, 2018 |
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Pioneers of surgical hygiene
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Jul 07, 2018 |
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The invention of numbers
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Jun 30, 2018 |
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The life and works of William Blake
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Jun 23, 2018 |
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J. William Fulbright: Scholarships and Soft Power
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Jun 16, 2018 |
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The tales of Timbuktu
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Jun 09, 2018 |
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The piano: Hitting the right keys
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Jun 02, 2018 |
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Simone de Beauvoir: Feminist thinker for modern times
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May 26, 2018 |
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Catherine the Great of Russia
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May 19, 2018 |
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Material World: Making the Modern Factory
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May 12, 2018 |
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Machu Picchu: The secrets of a forgotten city
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May 05, 2018 |
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Plastic: How it Changed the World
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Apr 28, 2018 |
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Sugar: A Sweet Menace
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Apr 21, 2018 |
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What is Zoroastrianism?
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Apr 14, 2018 |
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Votes for Women: the Global Story
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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From Straw Poll to Opinion Poll
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Lawrence of Arabia
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Mar 24, 2018 |
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Yves Saint Laurent: Fashion revolutionary
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Mar 17, 2018 |
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Herman Melville: Moby Dick
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Mar 10, 2018 |
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The original Goths
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Mar 03, 2018 |
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Dante’s Inferno: The poetry of Hell
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Feb 24, 2018 |
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Magellan: First Man Round the Globe?
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Feb 17, 2018 |
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The Little Prince: Lessons from an aviator’s life
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Feb 10, 2018 |
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Chinua Achebe: Rewriting the African story
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Feb 03, 2018 |
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Boudica: Warrior queen
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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The alphabet of chemistry
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Jan 20, 2018 |
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Kubla Khan: A vision in a dream
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Jan 13, 2018 |
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The story of Evita
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Jan 06, 2018 |
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Flamenco: Darkness and light
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Dec 30, 2017 |
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Sankara: Africa’s Revolutionary President
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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Cotton: a Yarn with a Twist
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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Life Support: The Story of the Red Cross
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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Stanislavsky: Founder of modern acting
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Dec 02, 2017 |
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Nikola Tesla’s electric dreams
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Nov 25, 2017 |
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Adam Smith: Father of Capitalism
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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The First Skyscrapers
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast
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Nov 06, 2017 |
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The Reformation: A World Divided
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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Detroit: Migration Motors & Music
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Oct 21, 2017 |
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The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
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Oct 14, 2017 |
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Rumi: Sufi poet of love
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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The story of the guitar
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Oct 02, 2017 |
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The rise and fall of Julius Caesar
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Secrets of the Great Pyramid
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Sep 11, 2017 |
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First Impressions: The Printing Press
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Sep 04, 2017 |
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The first heart transplant
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Aug 28, 2017 |
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Picasso: Artist of reinvention
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Aug 21, 2017 |
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Making Scents: The story of perfume
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Aug 14, 2017 |
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Total eclipse of the Sun
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Aug 07, 2017 |
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The One Thousand and One Nights
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Jul 31, 2017 |
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Joan of Arc: Making a martyr
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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Up close with tango
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Jul 15, 2017 |
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Carl Linnaeus: Naming nature
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Jul 10, 2017 |
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Silk Routes: Two Thousand Years of Trading
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Jul 01, 2017 |
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Indian Princely States
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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The Creation of Modern Canada
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Childhood: From Toddlers to Teenagers
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Jun 12, 2017 |
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Arthur Conan Doyle: The man behind Sherlock Holmes
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Jun 05, 2017 |
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Telling the time: From sundials to satnav
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May 30, 2017 |
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Taiwan: An Island History
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May 15, 2017 |
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Amelia Earhart: Trailblazer in the skies
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May 08, 2017 |
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How the metre changed the world
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May 01, 2017 |
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Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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The Belle Epoque: A Golden Age?
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Apr 17, 2017 |
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Machiavelli - Master of Power
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Apr 10, 2017 |
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Haile Selassie: The last Emperor of Ethiopia
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Apr 03, 2017 |
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The KGB: Secrets and Spies
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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The Magic of Bronze
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Mar 20, 2017 |
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Marie Curie: A pioneering life
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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Beethoven: The genius rule breaker
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Mar 06, 2017 |
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Yellow fever: Man against mosquito
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Feb 27, 2017 |
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The real story of Frankenstein
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Feb 20, 2017 |
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The birth of hip hop
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Feb 13, 2017 |
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Seven Samurai: A Japanese masterpiece
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Feb 04, 2017 |
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Goethe: The story of colour
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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Mata Hari: Dancer, lover, spy
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Jan 23, 2017 |
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The Silicon Chip: A Tech Revolution
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Jan 16, 2017 |
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The Powers of the American President
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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Fela Kuti: King of Afrobeat
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Jan 02, 2017 |
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Cali-topia: a New Vision of Thomas More's Utopia?
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Dec 26, 2016 |
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Utopia: Mr More’s Wondrous Islands
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Dec 21, 2016 |
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Thomas More's Utopia
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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Winner or Cheat? Doping in Sport
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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The Iliad: Beauty, brutes and battles
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Dec 05, 2016 |
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Korea: Two Countries, One Past
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Nov 26, 2016 |
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Unpicking the UN
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Nov 21, 2016 |
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Drones and their Impact on the World
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Nov 14, 2016 |
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DNA: The code for making life
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Nov 07, 2016 |
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The new curators: Who decides what’s culturally important?
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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Do we Need Artificial Intelligence?
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Oct 24, 2016 |
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Concrete: Foundation of the modern world
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Oct 17, 2016 |
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Why Are We Generous?
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Oct 10, 2016 |
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Reducing Urban Poverty
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Oct 03, 2016 |
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Using Other People’s Water
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Sep 26, 2016 |
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How Shyness and Introversion can be a Strength
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Sep 19, 2016 |
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Turmoil Around the World and in Ourselves
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Sep 12, 2016 |
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Underground: How Deep Can Life Survive?
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Sep 05, 2016 |
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Fire: How Climate Change is Altering our Attitudes to Wildfires
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Aug 29, 2016 |
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What is the Best Way to Deal with Anxiety?
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Aug 22, 2016 |
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Image overload: Coping with the modern world's visual clutter
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Aug 15, 2016 |
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Balloons and How they Changed the World
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Aug 08, 2016 |
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Sharing and Why it is Essential for the Human Race
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Aug 01, 2016 |
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The Unpredictable Planet: Understanding Volcanoes and Earthquakes
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Jul 25, 2016 |
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Do You Know What You’re Eating?
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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Radioactivity: Friend or Foe?
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Jul 11, 2016 |
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Defiance: Why Are Some People More Defiant than Others?
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Jul 04, 2016 |
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Microbes and Humans: The Science of Living Together
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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Unfinished: The Art of the Incomplete
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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When Does Healthy Competition Become Destructive?
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May 30, 2016 |
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After Dark: How we Respond to Darkness
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May 23, 2016 |
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Brain Drain: Can We Stem the Flow?
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May 16, 2016 |
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Wheel Revolutions
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May 09, 2016 |
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Rules and how they govern us
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May 02, 2016 |
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Balance: How we Find Equilibrium
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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Lost and Found
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Apr 16, 2016 |
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A Single World, Many Identities?
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments
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Apr 06, 2016 |
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Taming Nature
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Mar 30, 2016 |