1494 Episodes

  1. The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius

    Published: 3/15/2024

  2. Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero

    Published: 3/14/2024

  3. Paraguay adopts its second language

    Published: 3/13/2024

  4. Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate

    Published: 3/12/2024

  5. 11M: The day Madrid was bombed

    Published: 3/11/2024

  6. MH370: The plane that vanished

    Published: 3/8/2024

  7. Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda

    Published: 3/7/2024

  8. The Carnation Revolution in Portugal

    Published: 3/6/2024

  9. French child evacuees of World War Two

    Published: 3/5/2024

  10. Uruguay v the tobacco giant

    Published: 3/4/2024

  11. The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada

    Published: 3/1/2024

  12. The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru

    Published: 2/29/2024

  13. The lost Czech scrolls

    Published: 2/28/2024

  14. Crimea's Soviet holiday camp

    Published: 2/27/2024

  15. Russia annexes Crimea

    Published: 2/26/2024

  16. Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts

    Published: 2/23/2024

  17. Columbus Lighthouse

    Published: 2/22/2024

  18. Trans murder in Honduras

    Published: 2/21/2024

  19. Icelandic women's strike

    Published: 2/20/2024

  20. The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs

    Published: 2/19/2024

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