78. How to ace interviews

What travel tips can you learn from diplomats? Here are three, including: try to travel overland where possible; see things yourself; and meet and exchange views with as many people as possible. Did it work for me, in the UK, France, Germany, Austria and Russia? You decide.For mo ...  Show more

"Don't let jobs destroy you" looks at the case of a former colleague of mine whose health was damaged by overwork. What could she have done differently? Was the problem a bad boss? Discrimination? I look at why you shouldn't jump to conclusions. In particular, don't assume there' ...  Show more

In this episode, Sapphire takes you to haunted battlefields all over the world. First in Bulgaria, where Vasil has a close encounter with the legendary Samodiva. Then, to an abandoned civil war railway in Louisiana, an unsettling military base in Singapore, the uninhabited home o ...  Show more

A journey to an ancient city marked by both beauty and ugliness, where intractable allegiances, passions and pasts collide. 

Synopsis: Part 2 of a two-part Spotlight series on the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Galerius: refugee, herdsman, soldier, Caesar, Augustus, Tetrarch, conqueror, schemer, would-be ruler of the (Dacian?) Empire, and persecutor of the Christians. A rollicking Third Century rom ...  Show more