Episodes List
Reinventing Disraeli
17 Sep, 2026The scramble for the Middle East
10 Sep, 2026The novel in Britain: from cover to cover
03 Sep, 2026Journeys in Europe’s grey zone
27 Aug, 2026Machiavelli still matters
20 Aug, 2026The entire history of cinema in one shot
13 Aug, 2026America’s universal document: a curious history
06 Aug, 2026The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey
30 Jul, 2026How wine made the modern world
23 Jul, 2026The struggle for Saudi Arabia’s buried past
20 Jul, 2026The diplomats who defeated Hitler
16 Jul, 2026The political power of knowing your enemy
13 Jul, 2026The return of the Great Powers
09 Jul, 2026Germany’s new old nuclear dilemma
06 Jul, 2026250 years of the American experiment
02 Jul, 2026Where is Russia’s place in the world?
29 Jun, 2026Christianity’s debt to Rome
25 Jun, 2026Jean Eustache: the outsider who reshaped French cinema
22 Jun, 2026How to end a war
18 Jun, 2026Testament to doomed media
15 Jun, 2026Why Armenia’s elections matter
11 Jun, 2026Len Deighton’s spycraft
08 Jun, 2026The civilising wonders of wine
05 May, 2026Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?
30 Apr, 2026The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials
27 Apr, 2026Universities are at crisis point
23 Apr, 2026The anatomy of the spy novel
20 Apr, 2026The roots of the West’s identity crisis
16 Apr, 2026Iran’s strange Scottish obsession
13 Apr, 2026