Legacy

What happens to a person when the country they were born in decides they were never really from there?

What does a play about the women of a sacked city, written 2,400 years ago, have to say to an actress walking out of Syria on foot?

And how do you stand on a stage in Edinburgh and make an audience laugh about the worst thing that ever happened to you...

Who decided that the sea — cold, dangerous and full of smugglers — was somewhere you went for fun?

What kind of doctor prescribes plunging into the Channel naked in the dead of winter, and then drinking it?

And how did the towns Britain built to enjoy itself end up among the most deprived places in the country?

The holiday — the whole idea ...

Why does every dictator, sooner or later, want to host the World Cup?

What did a military junta that never wanted the tournament discover once the goals started going in?

And when a hundred thousand people are dancing in the street, who is that actually working for?

Peter Frankopan sits down with investigative journalist Karim Zidan, who ha...

What happened when the people written out of the Grand Tour wrote their own account of it?

What did an eighteenth-century Bengali diplomat see in London that made him call the British a conceited race?

And how did a man from Bihar end up as shampooing surgeon to the King of England?

Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan follow the travellers the ...

What's a garnet mined in Sri Lanka two and a half thousand years ago doing in a silver hairpin dug up near Bruges? Why are the Duke of Burgundy and the conqueror of Constantinople staring each other down for the first time in history? And, how did most of Belgium forget that its own counts once sat on the throne of Constantinople?

Afua turns interviewer as Peter o...