Episodi

  • The Night Watch: The Painting That Lost Its Edges

    The Night Watch: The Painting That Lost Its Edges
    Oct 16 2026
    Rembrandt's great civic guard portrait was cut to fit a new room in 1715. The missing canvas never came back. This episode follows the figures who seem to march out of the frame, the small copy that preserves clues to the lost composition, and the conservators separating old varnish from original paint. Based on the Rijksmuseum's collection and conservation records.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    31 min
  • Frankenstein: The Ghost-Story Bet of 1816

    Frankenstein: The Ghost-Story Bet of 1816
    Oct 2 2026
    A wet summer near Geneva brought Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John Polidori together for a ghost-story challenge. Mary Shelley's later memory gives us a vivid beginning; her surviving notebooks show the longer work that made Frankenstein a novel. We follow the manuscript, the anonymous 1818 edition and the question at the book's heart: what does a maker owe the life he creates?

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.

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    31 min
  • The Portrait of Madame X

    The Portrait of Madame X
    Sep 19 2026
    John Singer Sargent's 1884 portrait of Virginie Gautreau arrived at the Paris Salon with one jeweled strap fallen from her shoulder. Follow the sittings, the scandal, Sargent's repainting and the long afterlife of a picture whose first version still shapes what viewers remember.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.

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    33 min
  • The Theft of the Mona Lisa, 1911

    The Theft of the Mona Lisa, 1911
    Sep 12 2026
    On a Monday in August 1911 a glazier in a white workman's smock lifted the Mona Lisa off a Louvre wall, took it apart on a service stair, and walked out with the panel under his coat. The museum noticed the following day. Celia Rhodes on why the painting was admired rather than famous before the theft, how a blank wall and cheap illustrated newspapers made it the most recognised image on earth, why Apollinaire and Picasso were arrested for it, and what the panel was doing in a trunk in a Paris tenement for over a year.

    The Valfierno forgery story is discussed as an unverified press account, not as fact.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.
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    28 min