Irán 1979, la revolución de los ayatolás - Ep...

En la biografía de Johann Strauss (1825-1889), más conocido como Johann Strauss hijo, hay una historia verdaderamente curiosa. Y es que además de los problemas respiratorios y bronquiales que padeció durante su madurez, desarrolló una pequeña colección de fobias. Al rey del vals ...  Show more

La tradición musical austriaca es indiscutible y admirable: Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, los Strauss o los alemanes Gluck, Beethoven y Brahms que se integraron a la perfección en el ambiente vienés... vals, polca, galop... Klimt, Zweig... el Imperio de Francisco José I, Sisi... la Óp ...  Show more

1979 was the year that set the Islamic world on the path to today. In Iran, the revolution established the nation as a theocracy that sought to defend Shi'ism across the world. In Saudi Arabia, the siege of the Holy Mosque led to the nation embracing a more radical Sunni Islam th ...  Show more

Join Tom and Dominic for their World Cup episode on Saudi Arabia, where they discuss 'the most famous structure in global Islam' - the Kaaba in Mecca. Tune in to hear about the Prophet Mohammed, Abdul Malik, and the origins of the most sacred site in Islam. Join The Rest Is His ...  Show more

With the Sassanian Empire defeated and the Byzantine Empire exhausted, there is a power vacuum in the centre of the world. Both of these superpowers have drained their resources fighting each other over the past 30 years, consuming many of the great cities of antiquity. To the so ...  Show more

How did the great divide within Islam, the split between Sunni and Shia, develop? We trace how the great 16th century confrontation between the Ottomans of Turkey and the Safavids of Iran cemented what had previously been a much more porous division. Iran has been a Shia country ...  Show more