Episode 227
How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom
Historian Nicholas Morton explores how a miracle of marketing brought the Knights Templars...
July 4, 2025
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Episode 226
The lost art of chorography
The writer Josh Mcloughlin reflects on the art of chorography, one of English literature’s...
June 27, 2025
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Episode 225
1975, the year that made the modern world
Historian Damian Valdez reflects on the meaning of 1975, a fateful year for the internatio...
June 20, 2025
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Episode 224
What happened to the politician’s moustache?
Writer Luka Ivan Jukic laments the all-but-total disappearance of facial hair from politic...
June 6, 2025
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Episode 223
The strange death of squalor
Journalist and author Jenny McCartney celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how ge...
May 30, 2025
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Episode 222
Why Finns joined the fight
Geopolitical analyst Charly Salonius-Pasternak examines Finland's long journey to full mem...
May 23, 2025
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Episode 221
The West’s lust for liberty
The late Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of E...
May 16, 2025
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Episode 220
How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
Agnès Poirier, journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 o...
May 2, 2025
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Episode 219
Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, show...
April 17, 2025