Podcasts

The Apollo Programme with Kevin Fong

Getting to the moon was no easy feat, no matter how confident President Kennedy may have sounded in his famous 1961 speech. NASA built a team from...

Baby Formula

The United States has been suffering from a baby formula shortage for months now. It’s shown how reliant we are on this one commodity. People...

Hatshepsut: The Temple of Egypt's Female Pharaoh

On the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor, Egypt sits a temple considered to be one of the great architectural wonders of ancient Egypt. The memorial...

How Trees Gave Places Their Names

Trees have been universally important to humanity throughout history - not only as the source of fruits and nuts, but also wood for tools, weapons...

Abortion in the US

In this episode we are looking into the first time abortion was made illegal in the US. This is the first of a special two-part series looking at...

Formidable Heroines of History

From the notorious thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these heroines...

Marquis de Sade

Writer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade is a very controversial figure because of its texts, where erotism and pornography had an important...

The Real Bin Laden

18 minutes. That's how much extra time the US Navy Seals had during their raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In that time...

Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Was...

My Life as a Child Prisoner of War

The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began on December 25, 1941, after the then Governor, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown...

Sumerians and the Birth of Writing

Despite being one of the first civilisations in human history, Sumer is not as well-known as other Bronze Age societies such as Babylonia and, of...

Measurements

A pint might be Britain’s most beloved measurement. But what’s the name for the distance a reindeer can walk before it needs to pee?

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