INÉDIT - Entrez dans Bourges !

Au XIXe siècle, l'Orient Express relie l'Europe aux portes de l'Orient. Intrigues, espionnage, mystères, crimes : les histoires les plus folles naissent dans ses wagons bleu nuit. Le palace sur rails transporte avec raffinement des rois, des aventuriers ou des artistes jusqu'à Is ...  Show more

Plongez sous les pavés de Paris pour découvrir comment une idée complètement folle a transformé la ville : le métro ! Des tunnels, des rames, et des Parisiens bousculés... Un joyeux bazar orchestré par Fulgence Bienvenüe, devenu aujourd'hui indispensable. Du lundi au vendredi à 1 ...  Show more

From Renaissance Florence and ancient Babylon to the kingdom of Benin and Heian-era Kyoto, cities across history have served as launchpads for extraordinary outbursts of artistic flowering. Caroline Campbell, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and the author of The Power ...  Show more

From towering tenements to Punic porridge — step into the streets of ancient Carthage.In this immersive episode of The Ancients, Tristan travels back to 210 BC to explore daily life in the heart of one of the ancient world’s richest and most vibrant cities. Joined by Dr Eve MacDo ...  Show more

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Professor Jan Clarke to explore the life, legend, and legacy of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin — better known as Molière. From his audacious rejection of bourgeois expectations to his controversial plays that rattled the Catholic Church and deligh ...  Show more

Known as the 'King of the World' and the last great king of Assyria, Ashurbanipal bestrode the ancient Mesopotamian world as a warrior but also a scholar, ruling the great Assyrian empire at the height of its power.In this episode, Tristan Hughes is joined by Assyriologist Dr Sel ...  Show more