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Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction
Celebrating the author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles

The Fall of the Roman Empire
Why did the once mighty Rome crumble and fall to invaders in 476AD?

Picasso, artist of reinvention
How an artist changed our way of seeing

Tolstoy: War and Peace
An epic sweep of war and love and family life set in 19th century Russia

Chaucer, father of English poetry
The man who in the 14th Century made English a language fit for literature

Up close with tango
The dance that seduced the world

Valkyries: Fierce women of war
Choosing dead heroes from the battlefield, to fight with Odin in the apocalyptic Ragnarok

Silk routes: 2000 years of trading
Luxuries and everyday goods that travelled West and East

Bertha von Suttner: A champion of peace
The writer who became the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Joan of Arc: Making a martyr
How a teenager fought to save France