The Forum Podcast
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Episodes to download
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Bonus Podcast: Death in Ice Valley
Yesterday
A special preview of the new podcast Death in Ice Valley
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Votes for Women: the Global Story
Sat 7 Apr 2018
The extraordinary stories of the women around the world who won the right to vote
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From Straw Poll to Opinion Poll
Sat 31 Mar 2018
With us since the 1930s, polls help forecast elections and conduct market research
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Lawrence of Arabia
Sat 24 Mar 2018
The life of T.E Lawrence renowned for his involvement with the Arab Revolt during WW1
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Yves Saint Laurent: Fashion Revolutionary
Sat 17 Mar 2018
Bridget Kendall and guests on the glamorous world of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.
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Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Sat 10 Mar 2018
The 19th Century epic novel on a vengeful sailor’s battle with the great ‘white whale’
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Dante’s Inferno: The Poetry of Hell
Sat 24 Feb 2018
The imagined poetic voyage through Hell that explores the meaning of human existence
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Magellan: First Man Round the Globe?
Sat 17 Feb 2018
The story of the man whose voyage accidently circumnavigated the globe
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The Little Prince: Lessons from an Aviator’s Life
Sat 10 Feb 2018
The life and works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Chinua Achebe: Rewriting the African Story
Sat 3 Feb 2018
The life and work of the ground-breaking Nigerian author
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Kubla Khan: A Vision in a Dream
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the most famous poems.
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Flamenco: Darkness and Light
Sat 30 Dec 2017
Rajan Datar and guests explore the origins and evolution of flamenco
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Sankara: Africa’s Revolutionary President
Sat 23 Dec 2017
Thomas Sankara: why his assassination and time in power still haunts Africa to this day
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Life Support: The Story of the Red Cross
Sat 9 Dec 2017
The Story of The International Committee of the Red Cross
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Stanislavsky: Founder of Modern Acting
Sat 2 Dec 2017
Konstantin Stanislavsky: the greatest single influence on acting today
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Nikola Tesla’s Electric Dreams
Sat 25 Nov 2017
A showman and a dreamer or an engineering genius well ahead of his time?
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Adam Smith: Father of Capitalism
Sat 18 Nov 2017
Exploring the work of the 18th century moral philosopher and economist Adam Smith
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Rain or Shine? A Short History of the Weather Forecast
Sat 4 Nov 2017
A century and a half of scientific meteorology
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The Reformation: A World Divided
Sat 28 Oct 2017
How Martin Luther started a revolution that would lead to the Protestant Reformation
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Detroit: Migration Motors & Music
Sat 21 Oct 2017
The changing fortunes of the American city of Detroit
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The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
Sat 14 Oct 2017
The story of the men and women who defined the ‘Golden Age’ of piracy.
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