Rasputin | How Rumour Broke an Empire | Feat. Sir Antony Beevor
How does a Siberian peasant mystic end up controlling the most powerful empire in Europe? Could the rumours that destroyed a dynasty have been entirely false — and did they matter anyway? And, without...
14 Touko 39min
Diets | One Stomach Flu Away From My Goal Weight | 2
What did it take for human beings to start controlling what they ate — and why did "health" so quickly become a coverstory for something else? How did a Venetian nobleman's wine-heavy calorie restrict...
12 Touko 42min
Diets | Three Eggs and a Bottle of Wine | 1
What did Vogue actually recommend women eat in 1977 — and why did it make one food writer cry in thebathroom? How did the Greeks turn a six-pack into a moral argument? And, has the human obsession wit...
7 Touko 35min
Mystics | Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man In The World | 3
What happens when you raise a child telling him he's the Beast — and he decides to prove you right? Could a manwho genuinely repelled everyone around him have quietly shaped the culture we live in tod...
5 Touko 50min
Mystics | Helena Blavatsky's Karma | 2
Who invented the spiritual vocabulary of the modern world — karma, reincarnation, yoga studios, the idea that you can be "spiritual but not religious"? What if the hidden masters living in remote Tibe...
30 Huhti 54min
Mystics | Nostradamus: The Arophecary | 1
Nostradamus has predicted every major disaster in history — or so the internet would have you believe. Peter and Afua get behind the myth to meet the real man: a plague-era apothecary, rejected by the...
28 Huhti 47min
The Age Of Cargo | The TEU | 3
Malcolm McLean was a frustrated truck driver who thought there had to be a better way. The metal box he invented now carries 90% of the world's traded goods — and quietly runs the global economy.Join ...
23 Huhti 36min
The Age Of Cargo | Globalisation and the Oceans | 2
From colliers carrying coal out of Newcastle to Marshall Plan grain crossing the Atlantic, Peter and Afua trace how the movement of goods by sea built the modern world. This is the story of bulk cargo...
21 Huhti 38min
