1505 Episodes

  1. The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer

    Published: 11/8/2024

  2. The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto

    Published: 11/7/2024

  3. The Shah of Iran's party

    Published: 11/6/2024

  4. In exile from Iran

    Published: 11/5/2024

  5. Iran hostage crisis

    Published: 11/4/2024

  6. Siegfried and Roy tiger attack

    Published: 11/1/2024

  7. Brazil’s electronic voting

    Published: 10/31/2024

  8. The Ken Burns Effect

    Published: 10/30/2024

  9. Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator

    Published: 10/29/2024

  10. The creation of Greenwich Mean Time

    Published: 10/28/2024

  11. My dad created Dungeons & Dragons

    Published: 10/25/2024

  12. Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal

    Published: 10/24/2024

  13. Ethiopia's 1984 famine

    Published: 10/23/2024

  14. I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica

    Published: 10/22/2024

  15. The fight to stop skin lightening in India

    Published: 10/21/2024

  16. Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt

    Published: 10/18/2024

  17. Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings

    Published: 10/17/2024

  18. Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child

    Published: 10/16/2024

  19. The Rose Revolution in Georgia

    Published: 10/15/2024

  20. The Sunflower Movement

    Published: 10/14/2024

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