成人快手

Secrets of the Great Pyramid

Exploring The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt

• 40 mins

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the origins and the legacy of Bram Stoker鈥檚 Dracula

• 40 mins

The rise and fall of Julius Caesar

The ruler who revolutionised ancient Rome

• 40 mins

The story of the guitar

The history and popular rise of the guitar

• 40 mins

Rumi: Sufi poet of love

The life, poetry and legacy of 13th Century Sufi poet Rumi

• 40 mins

The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

The story of the men and women who defined the 鈥楪olden Age鈥� of piracy.

• 39 mins

The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

The story of the men and women who defined the 鈥楪olden Age鈥� of piracy.

• 40 mins

Detroit: Migration Motors & Music

The changing fortunes of the American city of Detroit

• 40 mins

Detroit: Migration, Motors and Music

The changing fortunes of the American city of Detroit

• 40 mins

The Reformation: A World Divided

How Martin Luther started a revolution that would lead to the Protestant Reformation

• 40 mins

Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast

A century and a half of scientific meteorology

• 40 mins

The First Skyscrapers

How America reached for the skies

• 40 mins

Adam Smith: Father of Capitalism

Exploring the work of the 18th century moral philosopher and economist Adam Smith

• 40 mins

Nikola Tesla鈥檚 electric dreams

A showman and a dreamer or an engineering genius well ahead of his time?

• 40 mins

Stanislavsky: Founder of modern acting

Konstantin Stanislavsky: the greatest single influence on acting today

• 40 mins

Life Support: The Story of the Red Cross

The Story of The International Committee of the Red Cross

• 40 mins

Cotton: a Yarn with a Twist

The chequered history of the original global fabric

• 40 mins

Sankara: Africa鈥檚 Revolutionary President

Thomas Sankara: why his assassination and time in power still haunts Africa to this day

• 40 mins

Flamenco: Darkness and light

Rajan Datar and guests explore the origins and evolution of flamenco

• 40 mins

The story of Evita

Eva Peron rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful figures in Latin America

• 41 mins

Kubla Khan: A vision in a dream

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic is one of the most famous poems in the English language

• 40 mins

The alphabet of chemistry

The history of the Periodic Table of the elements

• 40 mins

Boudica: Warrior queen

The Iron Age English warrior queen who led a rebellion against the Romans

• 39 mins

Chinua Achebe: Rewriting the African story

The life and work of the ground-breaking Nigerian author

• 40 mins

The Little Prince: Lessons from an aviator鈥檚 life

Who was Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and how did he come to write The Little Prince?

• 40 mins

Magellan: First Man Round the Globe?

The story of the man whose voyage accidently circumnavigated the globe

• 40 mins

Dante鈥檚 Inferno: The poetry of Hell

The imagined poetic voyage through Hell that explores the meaning of human existence

• 40 mins

The original Goths

The ancient tribe which shaped Europe's history

• 40 mins

Herman Melville: Moby Dick

The 19th Century epic novel on a vengeful sailor鈥檚 battle with the great 鈥榳hite whale鈥�

• 40 mins

Yves Saint Laurent: Fashion revolutionary

Bridget Kendall and guests on the glamorous world of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

• 39 mins