The Forum Episodes Available now
Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet
The original Italian novel about the wooden puppet with the growing nose
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
