In the first series listeners learned how Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone, and that the 2014 World Cup Final could only have happened because of the 1415 invasion of Morocco. A look ...

The World Cup Final in June 2014 - a billion people watch 25 or so Germans and Argentinians play football in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. How did we end up here? It is a story that takes in 15th-century ...