Human Intelligence Episodes Available now
The Buddha—Travellers
A young prince who journeyed towards enlightenment.
Albert Einstein—Manhattan Project
How a world famous pacifist jump-started the Manhattan Project and revolutionised science.
Lise Meitner—Manhattan Project
The woman who discovered nuclear fission but would have nothing to do with the bomb.
John von Neumann—Manhattan Project
The game theory pioneer who made the information age possible.
Niels Bohr—Manhattan Project
A scientific genius who saw poetry in the subatomic world.
J Robert Oppenheimer—Manhattan Project
The father of the atom bomb who longed to be an all-American hero.
Charles Darwin—Collectors
A life-long collector of curiosities, Darwin saw massive significance in tiny changes.
Samuel Johnson—Collectors
Working in chaos at a desk strewn with papers, 'Dictionary Johnson' left a great legacy.
Pamphila—Collectors
A prolific historian from ancient Greece – female, freelance and working from home.
Denis Diderot—Collectors
The Enlightenment encyclopaedist; the ultimate interdisciplinary thinker.
