The Forum Episodes Available now
 
            Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist
Assessing the complex legacy of a man who campaigned for a United States of Africa
 
            The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War
The speech that committed the USA to a 40-year struggle with the Soviet Union
 
            Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent
A brilliant American journalist determined to live her life to the full
 
            Money: From coin to cryptocurrency
The origins of coins, paper money, shares and other financial instruments
 
            Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet
The original Italian novel about the wooden puppet with the growing nose
 
            The invention of numbers
How numbers and counting shaped our world
 
            Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist
Charting the highs and lows of the influential Dutch post-Impressionist painter
 
            Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound
A charismatic musician who transformed classical concerts
 
            Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy
Bridget Kendall explores a novel that gave rise to a new term in the English language
 
            Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer
A brilliant Russian whose scientific discoveries helped to reshape European universities