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Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even short?) Legacy is the show that looks at big lives from the perspective of no...
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Great Environmental Shocks in History | The Remaking of the Ancient World | 1
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Iran | Feat. Christopher de Bellaigue | On The Eve Of Confrontation | 3
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Iran | Feat. Kim Ghattas | The Legacies Of 1979 | 2
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Iran | Feat. Ali Ansari | Seen From The Inside And Out | 1
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Ernest Hemingway | One True Sentence | 2
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Ernest Hemingway | The Lost Generation | 1
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Gertrude Stein | Oozing Cubism | 2
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Gertrude Stein | It Takes A Lot Of Time To Be A Genius | 1
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This is Samurai | The Samurai Take Control | 2
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This Is Samurai | The Rise Of Medieval Warlords | 1
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Women and Healing | It's All On WitchTok | 3
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Women and Healing | The Original Witch Hunt | 2
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Women and Healing | The Strange Story of the Penis Nest Trapped in a Tree | 1
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The History of Wellness and Wellbeing | Shamans, Oracles and Gurus | 4
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The History of Wellness and Wellbeing | The Importance of Sleep and Exercise | 3
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The History of Wellness and Wellbeing | The First Treatments and Cures | 2
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The History of Wellness and Wellbeing | The Early Years | 1
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Encore: Gorbachev | The Man Who Lost an Empire | 4
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Encore: Gorbachev | Meltdown | 3
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Encore: Gorbachev | Shutting Down the Cold War | 2
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Encore: Gorbachev | The Boy from Stavropol | 1
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Encore: Charles Dickens | The Final Curtain | 4
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Encore: Charles Dickens | A Very Dickens Christmas | 3
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Encore: Charles Dickens | Dickensmania | 2
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Encore: Charles Dickens | Hard Times | 1
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Jane Austen | Feat. Marlon James | It's Jane Austen's World And We're Living In...
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Jane Austen | Proud Or Prejudiced |2
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Jane Austen | Making The Small Things The Right Size | 1
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Kellogg | Snap, Crackle, Pop | 2
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Kellogg | From The End Of The World To Wellness | 1
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The Rise of the Nazis | How Disease and Religion Paved the Way for Evil | 2
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The Rise of the Nazis | How Disaster Lead to Catastrophe | 1
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Greenland | The 51st State? | 2
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Greenland | This Is Greenland | 1
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Kwame Nkrumah | Rise and Fall | 4
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Kwame Nkrumah | Pan Africanist | 3
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Kwame Nkrumah | A Man Who Changed The World | 2
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Kwame Nkrumah | The Good Subject | 1
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St George | This is England and Beyond - St George's Flag Today | 2
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St George | This is England - The Flag Of St George | 1
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Martin Luther | A Man Who Changed The World | 2
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Martin Luther | Revolutionary, Hero and Villain | 1
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The Humble Potato | The Famine and the Frontier | 2
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The Humble Potato | The Root Of Empires | 1
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Joan of Arc | The Birth of a Saint | 4
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Joan of Arc | Trial by Fire | 3
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Joan of Arc | The Girl Who Made a King | 2
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Joan of Arc | The Maid of Orleans | 1
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Stalin | The Stain of Stalin | 4
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Stalin | Fighting Hitler | 3
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