All Episodes

The Little Prince: Lessons from an aviator’s life

Chinua Achebe: Rewriting the African story

Boudica: Warrior queen

The alphabet of chemistry

Kubla Khan: A vision in a dream

The story of Evita

Flamenco: Darkness and light

Sankara: Africa’s Revolutionary President

Cotton: a Yarn with a Twist

Life Support: The Story of the Red Cross

Stanislavsky: Founder of modern acting

Nikola Tesla’s electric dreams

Adam Smith: Father of Capitalism

The First Skyscrapers

Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast

The Reformation: A World Divided

Detroit: Migration Motors & Music

The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

Rumi: Sufi poet of love

The story of the guitar

The rise and fall of Julius Caesar

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Secrets of the Great Pyramid

First Impressions: The Printing Press

The first heart transplant

Picasso: Artist of reinvention

Making Scents: The story of perfume

Total eclipse of the Sun

The One Thousand and One Nights

Joan of Arc: Making a martyr

Up close with tango

Carl Linnaeus: Naming nature

Silk Routes: Two Thousand Years of Trading

Indian Princely States

The Creation of Modern Canada

Childhood: From Toddlers to Teenagers

Arthur Conan Doyle: The man behind Sherlock Holmes

Telling the time: From sundials to satnav

Taiwan: An Island History

Amelia Earhart: Trailblazer in the skies

How the metre changed the world

Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

The Belle Epoque: A Golden Age?

Machiavelli - Master of Power

Haile Selassie: The last Emperor of Ethiopia

The KGB: Secrets and Spies

The Magic of Bronze

Marie Curie: A pioneering life

Beethoven: The genius rule breaker

Yellow fever: Man against mosquito

The real story of Frankenstein

The birth of hip hop

Seven Samurai: A Japanese masterpiece

Goethe: The story of colour

Mata Hari: Dancer, lover, spy

The Silicon Chip: A Tech Revolution

The Powers of the American President

Fela Kuti: King of Afrobeat

Cali-topia: a New Vision of Thomas More's Utopia?

Utopia: Mr More’s Wondrous Islands

Thomas More's Utopia

Winner or Cheat? Doping in Sport

The Iliad: Beauty, brutes and battles

Korea: Two Countries, One Past

Unpicking the UN

Drones and their Impact on the World

DNA: The code for making life

The new curators: Who decides what’s culturally important?

Do we Need Artificial Intelligence?

Concrete: Foundation of the modern world

Why Are We Generous?

Reducing Urban Poverty

Using Other People’s Water

How Shyness and Introversion can be a Strength

Turmoil Around the World and in Ourselves

Underground: How Deep Can Life Survive?

Fire: How Climate Change is Altering our Attitudes to Wildfires

What is the Best Way to Deal with Anxiety?

Image overload: Coping with the modern world's visual clutter

Balloons and How they Changed the World

Sharing and Why it is Essential for the Human Race

The Unpredictable Planet: Understanding Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Do You Know What You’re Eating?

Radioactivity: Friend or Foe?

Defiance: Why Are Some People More Defiant than Others?

Microbes and Humans: The Science of Living Together

Unfinished: The Art of the Incomplete

Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste

Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity

When Does Healthy Competition Become Destructive?

After Dark: How we Respond to Darkness

Brain Drain: Can We Stem the Flow?

Wheel Revolutions

Rules and how they govern us

Balance: How we Find Equilibrium

Lost and Found

A Single World, Many Identities?

Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments

Taming Nature