Les origines du Pole Dance

Stéphane Bern raconte Jules Ferry, nommé ministre de l’Instruction publique en février 1879, qui a révolutionné l'école, en la rendant laïque, gratuite et obligatoire, et consolidé la République par ses lois historiques. Dans quel contexte les lois relatives à l’école portées par ... Show More

Invité : - Yann Le Bohec, historien, professeur émérite à La Sorbonne, spécialiste de l'Antiquité romaine Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations. 

Invité : - Laurent Lemire, journaliste et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages consacrés à l'histoire des sciences Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations. 

Body art...tattoos...are pretty ubiquitous these days. But where did it all start…and why? The first documented evidence of tattooing goes back over 5,000 years. But why did they do it? It’s not what you think. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Pasta is amazing. But where does the concept come from? In part one of this week's two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max delve into the origin of a simple series of ingredients -- and discover there's a lot more to the story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Today, we all generally understand that the brain is responsible for what we call personality and thought -- yet this wasn't always the case. Once humans figured out the brain was more than a weird lump in the skull, it took centuries of trial and error, along with quack science, ... Show More

(1/2) How has the devil been depicted through history? What are his origins? And why should he be portrayed as beautiful? In the first part of a two part mini-series on Lucifer himself, Anthony and Maddy talk with Professor Michelle Brock of Washington and Lee University, to find ... Show More

The actor-director discusses the long-awaited return of the hit series, the comedies that made him a star and growing up with his famous parents. 

Have you ever wondered how and where our Christmas tradition of pantomime originated?  In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb finds out from Dr. Oliver Crick, who traces pantomime’s origins to Commedia dell’arte - Italian travelling players who adapte ... Show More

Quand un ami vous raconte qu’il a pris son pied, vous en concluez qu’il a pris du plaisir, passé une nuit torride ou d’excellentes vacances. Parce que c’est bien ce que signifie l’expression « prendre son pied ». Disons qu’on attrape rarement ses orteils au sens propre, ou du moi ... Show More

You've heard of mooning -- the practice of bearing one's butt as an insult -- but where did it come from? Join Ben and Noel as they dive into the deadly story of the world's first recorded mooning, along with some other notable moments in keister history.See omnystudio.com/listen ... Show More

And we are back again with another week of Herodotus and his Histories. This time, we go backwards to explore how the Persian Empire got power within Asia. Isn't that fun? There certainly will not be any tangents here! No, not at all. Why would you think that?Submit your question ... Show More