The Forum Episodes Available now
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
Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city
The enigma of the Inca mountain retreat
Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham
The radical ideas of the 18th-century legal reformer Jeremy Bentham
Copper: From mining to microprocessors
The shiny red metal our lives depend on that has powered human development
Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery
How the queen of crime achieved her extraordinary success
Boudica, warrior queen
The Iron Age English warrior queen who led a rebellion against the Romans
