Podcast Episodes

The world’s largest model train set

In 2000, nightclub owners and twins Frederik and Gerrit Braun went from the neon lights of a Hamburg nightclub to building the world’s largest model …

1 year, 4 months ago

Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star

South Africa’s first feature film aimed at black audiences was released in 1949, launching Dolly Rathebe’s career.

The actress and jazz musician was …

1 year, 4 months ago

The Battle of the Beanfield

On 1 June 1985, a convoy of New Age Travellers set off for the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in the south of England. They were planning to hold…

1 year, 4 months ago

The legacy of The Pirate Bay

On 31 May 2006, police launched one of the largest raids in Swedish history, seizing servers from The Pirate Bay - a hugely popular but highly contro…

1 year, 4 months ago

Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart

In 1958 Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, published his first book, Things Fall Apart.

Set in pre-colonial rural Nigeria, it examines how the arrival o…

1 year, 4 months ago

The Tragically Hip's final gig

In 2015, rockstar and Canadian icon Gord Downie was given months to live, after doctors found he had a terminal brain tumour.

But instead of quietly …

1 year, 4 months ago

'I wrote the Champions League anthem'

In 1992, European football was at a turning point. The European Cup was going to be replaced with a new format: The Champions League.

European footb…

1 year, 4 months ago

Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer

It is only since Vivian Maier's death in 2009 that the 150,000 photographs she rarely showed to anyone have come to light.

Working as a nanny in the …

1 year, 4 months ago

The founding of Magnum Photos

In the aftermath of World War Two, a group of famous photographers brought their individual styles into one powerful collaboration, over a celebrator…

1 year, 4 months ago

Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer

Martín Chambi is regarded as one of the most important indigenous Peruvian photographers of the 20th century. Famous for his black and white images o…

1 year, 5 months ago