Episodes

  • 'Nutella' and Francesco Rivella

    'Nutella' and Francesco Rivella
    Mar 14 2025
    How Francesco Rivella - a young chemist from Northern Italy - changed breakfast forever after spending ten years refining the recipe for Nutella.

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    7 mins
  • Tuppy Owens: Sex campaigner

    Tuppy Owens: Sex campaigner
    Mar 11 2025
    The author of saucy sex guides linking fantasy and pornography while championing the right of everyone to have the sex life of their own choosing. The Associate Editor of The Times Magazine. Jane Mulkerrins tells the details - at least those we were able to print - of the life of Tuppy Owens.

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    8 mins
  • The People's Painter - Jack Vettriano

    The People's Painter - Jack Vettriano
    Mar 6 2025
    The self-taught 'people's painter' from Scotland who battled rejection from critics and art experts alike only to become one of the most successful artists in Britain

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    9 mins
  • Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky

    Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky
    Mar 3 2025

    Glittering, attacking player who battled his American chess rival Bobby Fischer in a gripping world title match in 1972.


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    10 mins
  • Hollywood legend Gene Hackman

    Hollywood legend Gene Hackman
    Feb 27 2025

    The two-time Oscar-winning actor starred in some of Hollywood’s most iconic films, including ‘The French Connection’ and ‘Unforgiven.


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    12 mins
  • Roberta Flack, legendary singer behind ‘Killing Me Softly’

    Roberta Flack, legendary singer behind ‘Killing Me Softly’
    Feb 25 2025

    The R&B singer was the first artist to win consecutive Grammy awards for record of the year, including for her hit The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.


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    13 mins
  • Suzanne Massie - 'the woman who ended the Cold War'

    Suzanne Massie - 'the woman who ended the Cold War'
    Feb 21 2025

    Suzanne Massie, an American scholar of Russian history who played an important role in the thawing of relations between US President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union in the 80s, and who some believe may have ‘helped to end the Cold War’.


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    6 mins
  • Squadron Leader Jack Hemmings

    Squadron Leader Jack Hemmings
    Feb 18 2025

    The decorated wartime pilot, Jack Hemmings, co-founded the world’s largest humanitarian airline, the Mission Aviation Fellowship and, in 2022, at the age of 100, became the oldest person to perform aerobatics in a Spitfire.


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    9 mins