John Logie Baird: The Eccentric Inventor Who Built Early Television
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1920s, a ragged inventor walked into the Daily Express claiming he could transmit v...
2 Okt 24min
Haile Selassie: Ethiopia's Last Emperor, Statesman, and Living Symbol
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Haile Selassie was revered as a pan-African statesman and worshipped as divine by the Rastafari ...
2 Okt 20min
Thomas Becket: From King's Best Friend to Murdered Archbishop
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When monks prepared Thomas Becket's body after his murder in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, they ...
2 Okt 25min
Charles I: The Stubborn King Who Lost His Crown and His Head
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the freezing morning of his execution in 1649, Charles I asked for a second shirt so the crow...
2 Okt 25min
Akbar the Great: How the Mughal Emperor Built an Empire of Tolerance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Akbar the Great amassed a library of 24,000 volumes despite likely never learning to read, and t...
2 Okt 29min
Vaslav Nijinsky: Ballet's Genius, the Rite of Spring, and Madness
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Vaslav Nijinsky was the greatest male dancer of his era, famed for leaps that seemed to pause in...
2 Okt 21min
Andreas Vesalius: The Anatomist Who Overturned Galen's Errors
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Andreas Vesalius was born into a family of royal physicians, yet as a student in Paris he collec...
2 Okt 21min
Niels Bohr: The Atom, Quantum Theory, and a Wartime Escape
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Niels Bohr went from goalkeeper and self-taught glassblower to the physicist who reimagined the ...
2 Okt 27min
