EpicsFable & folk tale
The Squirrel and the Bridge
An army is building a bridge of rocks across the sea. The bears and monkeys carry huge boulders. And one tiny squirrel keeps rolling in the sand and running to the shore. Is that really helping?
HistoryHistorical narrative
One Small Step
In July 1969, three men rode a giant rocket towards the Moon. With alarms sounding and fuel running low, two of them flew a fragile craft down to its grey surface, while the world held its breath.
FoundersBiography
Seven Friends and Ten Thousand Rupees
In 1981, seven young engineers in Pune started a software company with ten thousand rupees, borrowed from one founder's wife. For years they had no money, few clients and endless government paperwork. This is how Infosys began.
SportsBiography
The Hockey Wizard
A young soldier who practised hockey after duty, by the light of the moon, led India to three Olympic gold medals and became a legend of the game.
For KidsFable & folk tale
The Little Red Hen
A little red hen finds some grains of wheat and asks her friends to help her plant them. "Not I," says the cat. "Not I," says the dog. "Not I," says the duck. But at the end, everyone wants a slice of bread.
True StoriesTrue story
The Little Ships of Dunkirk
In 1940, hundreds of thousands of soldiers were trapped on the beaches of northern France. To help bring them home, an extraordinary fleet set out across the Channel, of fishing boats, ferries, yachts and pleasure launches.
FoundersBiography
The Milkman of India
Verghese Kurien was sent to a small Gujarat town against his wishes and planned to leave as soon as he could. He stayed for the rest of his life, and helped millions of village farmers turn their milk into a livelihood.
MotivationBiography
The Mountain Man
In a poor village in Bihar, a labourer picked up a hammer and a chisel and began to cut a path through a rocky hill. Everyone laughed. He kept going for twenty-two years.
FoundersBiography
The Mouse That Saved a Studio
Walt Disney's first studio went bankrupt. His second lost its star character and nearly all its artists in a single meeting. On the long train ride home, he needed a new idea, and fast.
True StoriesTrue story
The Race to Nome
In the winter of 1925, a deadly illness broke out in a small town in Alaska, cut off by snow and ice. The medicine that could stop it was nearly a thousand kilometres away. Only dogs could bring it.
True StoriesTrue story
The Raft Kon-Tiki
In 1947, six men lashed nine balsa logs together and pushed off from the coast of Peru, heading for islands thousands of kilometres across the Pacific. Experts said the raft would sink within weeks.
KindnessTrue story
The Village That Hid Children
During the Second World War, the people of a poor mountain village in France opened their doors to strangers on the run. They hid thousands, and hardly ever spoke of it afterwards.
True StoriesTrue story
Trapped in the Ice
In 1915, Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice. Twenty-eight men were stranded at the bottom of the world. Every one of them came home.
True StoriesTrue story
The 33 Under the Desert
In August 2010, a mine collapsed in Chile's Atacama Desert, trapping 33 men 700 metres underground. For seventeen days, nobody knew if they were alive.
True StoriesTrue story
Thirteen in the Cave
In June 2018, twelve boys from a Thai football team and their coach were trapped by floodwater deep inside a cave. The world came together to bring them out.
MotivationTrue story
Twelve Seconds at Kitty Hawk
Two brothers who ran a bicycle shop failed again and again to fly. So they went back to the beginning, built their own wind tunnel and checked everything for themselves.
True StoriesTrue story
Landing on the River
In January 2009, a passenger jet lost both engines minutes after take-off from New York. The pilots had about three and a half minutes to decide what to do.
HistoryHistorical narrative
The Mould That Saved Millions
In 1928, Alexander Fleming came back from holiday to find mould growing on a dish of bacteria. It took another twelve years, and a team in Oxford, to turn his discovery into a medicine.
For KidsFable & folk tale
Stone Soup
A hungry traveller arrives in a village where nobody will share. All he asks for is a pot of water and a fire, because he knows how to make soup from a stone.
HistoryHistorical narrative
The Seat on the Bus
On 1 December 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat. Her quiet "no" sparked a year-long boycott that helped change America.
True StoriesTrue story
The Town That Opened Its Doors
On 11 September 2001, dozens of airliners were ordered out of the sky and sent to a small town in Newfoundland. For several days its people looked after thousands of stranded strangers as if they were family.
HistoryHistorical narrative
The Mission That Came Home
In April 1970, an explosion left three astronauts nearly 200,000 miles from Earth in a damaged spacecraft. What followed was one of the greatest problem-solving efforts in history.
KindnessOriginal story
The Umbrella at Platform Four
One rainy morning, an old man left a spare umbrella at a station with a handwritten note. He had no idea what it would start.