Inside the mind of crime writer Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was one of the most successful suspense writers of the 20th century. Known...
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Inside the mind of crime writer Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was one of the most successful suspense writers of the 20th century. Known...
42:50
Ibn Sina: The Persian polymath
Over a thousand years ago in the city of Bukhara in modern-day Uzbekistan, a young man was...
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The Panama Canal: the real story behind the engineering triumph
Completed in 1914, the Panama Canal has long been regarded as a triumph of American ingenuity, a...
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Ida Pfeiffer: 19th century globetrotter
Ida Pfeiffer's desire to see the world was like many childhood fantasies - destined to remain...
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Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast
How did we get from not having any reliable way of predicting the weather just 150 years ago, to...
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Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
A young immigrant to the USA who started out working in a draper's shop, Emile Berliner ended up...
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Tracing the roots of ancient trees
Have you ever sat against the trunk of a large old tree, looked up into its canopy and wondered...
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The Wizard of Oz: A homegrown American fairy tale
The Wizard of Oz is best known as one of the most watched films of all time, or as one of its...
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Falconry: The history of hunting with birds of prey
The practice of hunting with birds of prey is thought to stretch back thousands of years. In...
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Aramaic: an imperial language without an empire
Aramaic is a language that for some three thousand years facilitated the exchange of ideas across...
39:49
The discovery of X-rays by the German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895 was nothing short of...
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Over five hundred years ago, dismissed diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli produced his most famous...
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The motor car is a feature of contemporary life the world over but when and where did motor...
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Ukulele - a history of Hawaii's national instrument
Throughout its 130-year-old history, the ukulele has often been underrated – for many, this tiny...
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko, groundbreaking fort builder
The American president Thomas Jefferson called Tadeusz Kosciuszko ‘as pure a son of liberty as I...
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The census: A snapshot of life
Anyone who has ever researched their family tree will have most likely come across the census,...
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Unravelling the history of knitting
Like many traditional domestic crafts, knitting has experienced a huge surge in popularity in the...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America
Considered to be one of literature’s supreme achievements, One Hundred Years of Solitude by the...
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Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal
So prodigious was the polymath Rabindranath Tagore, there’s a saying in Bengal that one lifetime...
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Pauline Viardot: 19th-century diva
While the name of Pauline Viardot may be unfamiliar to many, in her lifetime she was one of the...
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