History of the World podcast

Let us put some flesh on the bones of our prehistoric hominin story, and discover what our ancestors created to get carved flesh from the bones of animals. We investigate the technological advances fr...

15 Jul 201832min

Homo erectus, as the name would suggest, is the first fully upright human and it was definitely a migratory species.  Find out more about the journeys and advancements of human evolution in this episo...

8 Jul 201834min

What separates an ape from a human? Two million years ago, a small, primitive creature appeared in Africa with a larger brain, dexterous hands and an intriguing association with stone tools. Scientist...

2 Jul 201837min

Three million years ago, our ancestors were walking upright across the African landscape, leaving footprints that still survive today. They were not human, yet they were no longer simply ape-like crea...

26 Jun 201838min

Everything you know about the modern world began long before the first civilisation, the first city, or even the first human. It began with an asteroid, a handful of tiny survivors, and millions of ye...

24 Jun 201835min