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The dance that seduced the world
Joan of Arc: Making a martyr
How a teenager fought to save France
The One Thousand and One Nights
The power of storytelling
Total eclipse of the Sun
A plunge into darkness
Making Scents: The story of perfume
How fine fragrance became liquid luxury in a bottle
Picasso: Artist of reinvention
How Pablo Picasso changed our way of seeing
The first heart transplant
A race to make medical history
First Impressions: The Printing Press
How a fifteenth century innovation changed our printed world
Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Exploring The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the origins and the legacy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The rise and fall of Julius Caesar
The ruler who revolutionised ancient Rome
The story of the guitar
The history and popular rise of the guitar
Rumi: Sufi poet of love
The life, poetry and legacy of 13th Century Sufi poet Rumi
The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
The story of the men and women who defined the ‘Golden Age’ of piracy.
Detroit: Migration Motors & Music
The changing fortunes of the American city of Detroit
Detroit: Migration, Motors and Music
The Reformation: A World Divided
How Martin Luther started a revolution that would lead to the Protestant Reformation
Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast
A century and a half of scientific meteorology
The First Skyscrapers
How America reached for the skies
Adam Smith: Father of Capitalism
Exploring the work of the 18th century moral philosopher and economist Adam Smith
Nikola Tesla’s electric dreams
A showman and a dreamer or an engineering genius well ahead of his time?
Stanislavsky: Founder of modern acting
Konstantin Stanislavsky: the greatest single influence on acting today
Life Support: The Story of the Red Cross
The Story of The International Committee of the Red Cross
Cotton: a Yarn with a Twist
The chequered history of the original global fabric
Sankara: Africa’s Revolutionary President
Thomas Sankara: why his assassination and time in power still haunts Africa to this day
Flamenco: Darkness and light
Rajan Datar and guests explore the origins and evolution of flamenco
The story of Evita
Eva Peron rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful figures in Latin America
Kubla Khan: A vision in a dream
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic is one of the most famous poems in the English language
The alphabet of chemistry
The history of the Periodic Table of the elements
Boudica: Warrior queen
The Iron Age English warrior queen who led a rebellion against the Romans
