The Forum Episodes Available now
How the shipping container changed the world
How standardising the humble shipping container revolutionised world trade
Neanderthals: Meet the relatives
Recent scientific breakthroughs have overturned received wisdom about our ancient cousins
Cavalry and code-breaking: The Polish-Soviet war
Little-known conflict that shaped Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the First World War
How we work: Redesigning the office
The concept of the office is being reimagined. What can we learn from its history?
When money died: The world's worst inflation
Hungary, 1946, where prices doubled every 15 hours
The writer Rachel Carson who fought insecticide wars
How Silent Spring, a book about DDT use, changed the way we think about the environment
Why do we have a seven-day week?
How this unnatural cycle came to organise our lives
Forugh Farrokhzad: A trailblazing voice for women in Iran
How the courage and audacity of an Iranian writer continues to inspire
The Cynics: Counter-culture from Ancient Greece
Itinerant philosophers who advocated leading radically simplified lives.
Calories: How to fuel a human
The invisible force that shapes the way we feed ourselves
