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Balloons and How They Changed the World

The extraordinary impact of balloons on human society.

• 28 mins

The New Curators: Who Decides What's Culturally Important?

How the idea of curation has radically changed.

• 28 mins

Fire: How Climate Change Is Altering Our Attitudes to Wildfires

Bridget Kendall and guests explore ideas about how wildfires should be dealt with.

• 30 mins

Mata Hari: Dancer, Lover, Spy

What is the truth behind the legendary WWI spy-seductress?

• 28 mins

The Bittersweet Tale of Cocoa

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the origins of chocolate.

• 28 mins

Indian Princely States

Rajan Datar explores a lost world of culture and romance.

• 28 mins

Marie Curie - A Pioneering Life

The extraordinary life of the Polish scientist who changed the course of physics.

• 28 mins

The Magic of Bronze

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the history and importance of bronze.

• 28 mins

Up Close with the Tango

The dance that seduced the world

• 28 mins

The One Thousand and One Nights

Rajan Datar and guests explore the power of storytelling.

• 28 mins

Picasso: Artist of Reinvention

How an artist changed our way of seeing.

• 28 mins

Making Scents: The Story of Perfume

Bridget Kendall and guests explore how fine fragrance became what it is today.

• 28 mins

Nikola Tesla's Electric Dreams

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the life and inventions of engineer Nikola Tesla.

• 28 mins

Stanislavsky: Founder of Modern Acting

Bridget Kendall presents the ideas discussion show.

• 28 mins

From Straw Poll to Opinion Poll

Exploring the past, present and future of opinion polling

• 28 mins

Who Was the Real Cleopatra?

Bridget Kendall and guests unpick fact from fiction in the life of the last Queen of Egypt

• 28 mins