Tuesday Feb 5th, 2013
A history of smuggling in America
Today America is the world’s leading anti-smuggling crusader. While honorable, that title is also an ironic one when you consider America’s very close history of… smuggling. Our illicit imports have ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian… read more »
Saturday May 18th, 2013
War and glory
Barbara Graziosi and Anthony Verity discuss the Oxford World’s Classics edition of the Iliad.
Tuesday Apr 30th, 2013
“Forever Let Us Hold Our Banner High!”
Annette Funicello and the Original Mickey Mouse Club.
Sunday Apr 28th, 2013
The latest developments in cardiology
Video interviews from Cardiology Update 2013
Sunday Apr 21st, 2013
The father of the modern computer
B. Jack Copeland on Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine
