The Forum Episodes Available now
The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War
The speech that committed the USA to a 40-year struggle with the Soviet Union
Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent
A brilliant American journalist determined to live her life to the full
Money: From coin to cryptocurrency
The origins of coins, paper money, shares and other financial instruments
Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet
The original Italian novel about the wooden puppet with the growing nose
The invention of numbers
How numbers and counting shaped our world
Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist
Charting the highs and lows of the influential Dutch post-Impressionist painter
Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound
A charismatic musician who transformed classical concerts
Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy
Bridget Kendall explores a novel that gave rise to a new term in the English language
Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer
A brilliant Russian whose scientific discoveries helped to reshape European universities
Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city
The enigma of the Inca mountain retreat
