EPISODES
From history, science and cinema. Choose an episode and watch it on YouTube.
13:56What separates lucky people from unlucky ones? Psychologist Richard Wiseman studied them for eight years and found three things the lucky do that others don’t.
10:29In 1888 Alfred Nobel opened the newspaper and read his own obituary: “The merchant of death is dead.” That morning changed everything, and afterwards he wrote, in his own hand, the page that became the Nobel Prize.
11:35An officer lying in the mud under fire, his legs refusing to move… and a commander under bombardment who raised the telescope to his blind eye and said: I do not see the signal.
8:57Time travel: fact or fiction? In 2009 Stephen Hawking invited travellers from the future to a party at the University of Cambridge, and sent the invitations only after it was over… Did anyone come?
9:22An airliner has been circling over Athens for two hours, and no one answers. A fighter pilot pulls up to the window: the co-pilot is slumped in his seat… and the captain’s seat is empty.
11:55Three gunmen behind a locked door… and a negotiator standing outside it for six hours, talking. What did he say that made them open the door and walk out on their own?
7:57The king of Ithaca came home after twenty years… dressed as a beggar, hiding his name. His wife sits in front of him talking about her missing husband, and he is not sure he wants her to recognise him. He won the war, but betrayed himself in the way he won it.
6:16A young man is asleep and dreaming. The researchers ask him a new question… and an answer comes back. How did he hear them? And how could he reply while still asleep?
6:41From Kojiro on the island shore, to the ambush in the forest, to Baiken and his chain and sickle… three duels that reveal what was more dangerous than Musashi’s sword. But the biggest surprise was not in his victories; it was in the question he kept asking after them.
5:06He picked up the receiver and dialled his wife’s number… knowing no one would answer. In Japan, Kazuyoshi Sasaki found in the “wind phone” booth a place to talk to the wife he lost in the 2011 tsunami.
6:07“Once I get there, I’ll make up for it.” How many times have we said that while putting the rest of our lives on hold for one goal?
5:12Bruce Wayne got his strength back, trained, and tried to escape the prison. Yet every time he ended up back in the same place. What changed in the attempt that succeeded?
6:03The enemy in front of him, and his way back collapsing… on his own orders. How will he survive if he is the one who asked them to bring the bridge down?
7:42He crossed the sea on a promise… and when he arrived, he found that the future he had built his hopes on did not exist.