The Forum

The programme that explains the present by exploring the past.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004kln9

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 39m. Bisher sind 381 Folge(n) erschienen. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 10 days 15 hours 18 minutes

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How the shipping container changed the world


How standardising the humble shipping container revolutionised world trade


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 February 23, 2023  39m
 
 

Neanderthals: Meet the relatives


Recent scientific breakthroughs have overturned received wisdom about our ancient cousins


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 February 16, 2023  39m
 
 

Cavalry and code-breaking: The Polish-Soviet war


Little-known conflict that shaped Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the First World War


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 February 9, 2023  39m
 
 

How we work: Redesigning the office


The concept of the office is being reimagined. What can we learn from its history?


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 February 2, 2023  39m
 
 

When money died: The world's worst inflation


Hungary, 1946, where prices doubled every 15 hours


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 January 26, 2023  43m
 
 

The writer Rachel Carson who fought insecticide wars


How Silent Spring, a book about DDT use, changed the way we think about the environment


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 January 19, 2023  39m
 
 

Why do we have a seven-day week?


How this unnatural cycle came to organise our lives


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 January 12, 2023  45m
 
 

Forugh Farrokhzad: A trailblazing voice for women in Iran


How the courage and audacity of an Iranian writer continues to inspire


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 January 5, 2023  39m
 
 

The Cynics: Counter-culture from Ancient Greece


Itinerant philosophers who advocated leading radically simplified lives.


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 December 29, 2022  39m
 
 

Calories: How to fuel a human


The invisible force that shapes the way we feed ourselves


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 December 22, 2022  43m