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Killing Time in Imperial Japan
10/10 Christopher Harding discusses Tokyo in the early 20th century.
Creating Modern India
9/10 Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.
England's First European
8/10 Exploring Fynes Moryson's An Itinerary, a European travel book from the early 17th century
The Magic Years
7/10 Medical historian Matthew Smith explores 1970s US psychiatry: a time of hope and promise.
Faith, Fire and the Family
6/10 Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.
Russia's Sacred Ruins
5/10 Victoria Donovan explores the dilemmas of post-war reconstruction in Soviet Russia.
The British Writer and the Refugee
4/10 Katherine Cooper on the work by British writers to save colleagues in Europe during WWII.
In the Shadows of Biafra
3/10 New Generation Thinker Louisa Egbunike explores the legacy of the Biafran war.
Alexander the Great's Lost City
2/10 The story of Alexander the Great's lost city, buried beneath Bagram air base, Afghanistan.
Monks, Models and Medieval Time
1/10 Seb Falk discusses the 14th-century monks who studied astronomy.
