1472 Episodes

  1. Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway

    Published: 7/28/2023

  2. The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie

    Published: 7/27/2023

  3. The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit

    Published: 7/26/2023

  4. Brain: The first personal computer virus

    Published: 7/25/2023

  5. Escaping the Nazis in Greece

    Published: 7/24/2023

  6. The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis

    Published: 7/21/2023

  7. The birth of Barbie

    Published: 7/20/2023

  8. Japan surrenders in China

    Published: 7/19/2023

  9. The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia

    Published: 7/18/2023

  10. Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’

    Published: 7/17/2023

  11. Creating the first emoji

    Published: 7/14/2023

  12. When disposable nappies were invented

    Published: 7/13/2023

  13. Inventing Rubik’s Cube

    Published: 7/11/2023

  14. Invention of the ballpoint pen

    Published: 7/10/2023

  15. A right royal night out

    Published: 7/7/2023

  16. When tourism came to the Maldives

    Published: 7/6/2023

  17. The National Health Service begins

    Published: 7/5/2023

  18. Longest-serving democratically elected communist government

    Published: 7/4/2023

  19. The trial of John Demjanjuk

    Published: 7/3/2023

  20. I made Lady Gaga's meat dress

    Published: 6/30/2023

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