All episodes
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
The Bronze Age Collapse
Penicillin
Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
The Gettysburg Address
The Muses
Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Euclid's Elements
1816, the Year Without a Summer
The Neutron
The Sikh Empire
Agrippina the Younger
Aurora Leigh
Bedlam
The Maya Civilization
The Dutch East India Company
Mary Magdalene
Robert Hooke
Rumi's Poetry
Chromatography
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Saturn
Tristan and Iseult
Michael Faraday
Circadian Rhythms
Chinese Legalism
Voyages of James Cook
The Salem Witch Trials
Emma
The Battle of Lepanto
P v NP
The Empire of Mali
Simone de Beauvoir
Holbein at the Tudor Court
Alexander the Great
Perpetual Motion
Frida Kahlo
Frederick the Great
Extremophiles
Jane Eyre
Utilitarianism
Prester John
The Science of Glass
Josephus
The Lancashire Cotton Famine
Tagore
The Earth's Core
Fanny Burney
Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
Sappho
The California Gold Rush
The Curies
Al-Ghazali
Dark Matter
Beowulf
The Eunuch
The Wealth of Nations
The Photon
Ashoka the Great
Thucydides
Phenomenology
Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Truth
Behavioural Ecology
Zen
Kafka's The Trial
Aesop
Brunel
Hatshepsut
Nuclear Fusion
The Haitian Revolution
Rudyard Kipling
The Battle of Talas
Julius Caesar
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The Sun
Mrs Dalloway
Hildegard of Bingen
The Philosophy of Solitude
Robert Boyle
The Bluestockings
The Talmud
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Photosynthesis
The Sino-Japanese War
The Tale of Sinuhe
Tristram Shandy
The Domesday Book
Strabo's Geographica
States of Matter
Weber's The Protestant Ethic
Bishop Berkeley
The Trinity
Spartacus
The Eye
Social Darwinism
Chivalry
The Phoenicians