Joseph Banks: The Endeavour Sets Sail (Part 2)
What happened when Joseph Banks finally put to sea - and discovery left the comfort of gardens behind? How would a voyage meant to advance science collide with storms, suspicion, imperial rivalries, a...
13 Jan 59min
Joseph Banks: Weeds Over Greek (Part 1)
Who was Joseph Banks before he became the most powerful botanist in the British Empire? How did a wealthy, restless young man turn a childhood fascination with weeds into a scientific obsession that w...
6 Jan 48min
The Swiss War on Fruit Trees
Once, Switzerland was a land of pears.When we picture the Swiss countryside today, we imagine tidy fields, precision farming, and alpine order. But not so long ago, vast stretches of eastern Switzerla...
30 Dec 202558min
What Will History Remember: 2020s [so far] in Review (Livestream)
As 2025 draws to a close, we also reach the midpoint of the decade. Looking back on an eventful first half of the 2020s, we’re left with a big question: what will history remember about this era in th...
23 Dec 202545min
The Three Wise Men
What do gold, frankincense, and myrrh really tell us about the world into which Jesus was born? Who were the Magi - kings, mystics, scientists, or traders - and why did they travel vast distances carr...
16 Dec 202552min
The History of Figs
From incestuous wasps and prehistoric forests to sacred enlightenment, revolutionary resistance, and a certain square-shaped snack aisle icon - what if the fig is the most powerful fruit in human hist...
9 Dec 20251h
Space Films, Produce and History (Livestream)
"They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So technically, I colonized Mars. In your face , Neil Armstrong!"As Mark Watney's line from the book and film The Martian sug...
2 Dec 202547min
The Artichoke King
What does a thorny Mediterranean thistle have to do with the American Mafia? How did a humble vegetable — adored by Romans, cultivated by Renaissance queens, and grown lovingly by Italian immigrants —...
25 Nov 202543min
