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They're history’s most famous and infamous people. You’ve heard of them, but now it’s time you hear from them.
Albert Camus was a literary giant of the 20th century, known for his philosophy of absurdity in the human quest for the meaning of life. His...
Asmahan was a rebel in a world of expectations. From a Druze Princess to exalted singer in 1930s and 40s Egypt – she lived in extremes...
King Faisal I of Iraq was born in the age of the Ottoman Empire. A key figure in the Arab revolt, his patience, curiosity and diplomacy ende...
Shajarat al Durr was born in the golden age of Islam. Despite her beginnings as a child slave, she went on to become the first woman to sit...
Saladin, one of the best known generals of the Middle Ages, led the Muslim military's campaign during the Third Crusade. And won. In hindsig...
Raya and Sakina endured the daily grind of poverty, personal tragedy and societal prejudice in early 20th century Egypt, only to be embroile...
Actor Charles Dance returns to narrate season 7 of Hindsight. Listen to hear the remarkable lives of some of the Arab world's greatest figur...
When Truganini died, she was mistakenly declared the last Tasmanian Aboriginal. Though some say she sold out her people, in hindsight, Truga...
Frida Kahlo was a master of self portraits. Her uncompromising oil paintings, always deeply personal, dealt with identity, the human body an...
Eva Perón was a woman who beat the odds to become an inspiration to the people of Argentina. While powerful and popular, in hindsight, she w...
Madame Mao was one of the most powerful women in modern Chinese history. But she left behind a trail of many thousands of graves. As one of...
Amelia Earhart was a woman of many firsts. She broke aviation records and challenged conventions about what a woman should do. But critics a...
Winnie Mandela was hailed as an anti-apartheid hero and reviled as a corrupt child killer. In hindsight, can she be both? If she had never m...
In season 6, we hear about some of history’s most notable women. A 'Mother of the Nation', a communist revolutionary, an aviation pioneer, a...
Brazil's Mané Garrincha was first written off after being born with bent legs. Against the odds, he went on to become one of the greatest dr...
Andrés Escobar was considered the gentleman of football for his clean, calm play on the pitch. But his life was cut short after a mistake at...
Hungary's Ferenc Puskás is considered “football’s first international superstar.” There's even a trophy named after him for the player who s...
England's Lily Parr became famous during the brief, golden period of women’s football in the 1920s. A time when society had a hard time acce...
Lev Yashin was a Soviet-era legend, considered by many to be the best goalkeeper in the game. Scoring on Yashin was considered a career achi...
Diego Armando Maradona is often described as having been touched by the divine. But in hindsight, the man was no saint. Support the show: ht...
Diego Maradona, Lev Yashin, Lily Parr, Ferenc Puskás, Garrincha and Andrés Escobar. There's more to their lives than just football. What do...
Rosa Parks is known to most as the woman who took a stand by sitting down. In the collective memory, her legacy is confined to that one day,...
Sani Abacha is often referred to as the worst and most corrupt ruler in modern Nigerian history. He established a reputation as someone who...
Ulrike Meinhof - one half of the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang that robbed, bombed, kidnapped and killed their way across Germany in the earl...
In the West, Pol Pot is synonymous with Cambodia’s infamous “Khmer Rouge”. One of the most brutal dictatorships of the 20th Century. In hind...
Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile for 17 years after a coup in 1973. Many who knew him in the years before considered him unremarkable. In hindsi...
Strong, determined, cultured and desperate for true love. Catherine the Great was Russia's longest ruling female leader. She was also its la...
Catherine the Great, Augusto Pinochet, Ulrike Meinhof, Pol Pot, Sani Abacha and Rosa Parks. What do they have to say in season 4 of Hindsigh...
Polonium for Poland and Radium for the rays. Marie Curie was a Pole and scientist through and through. But as a woman in the early 20th cent...
Tokyo Rose became a household name in post-World War II United States. But the woman behind the nickname would spend her entire adult life d...
Charming, gregarious, ready to please. These are the disarming traits of one of Africa's most violent dictators. For eight years, Idi Amin r...
Indira Gandhi’s path to becoming the first female prime minister of India was inevitable. As the daughter of the country’s first independent...
For more than 40 years one man ruled Libya. Muammar Gaddafi. He was no ordinary tyrant. Clever and creative, he designed a handbook to build...
From the mother of radioactivity to the 'mad dog of the Middle East', hear from history's heroes and villains in season 3 of Hindsight. Char...
When Gibran Khalil Gibran was 12 years old, he boarded a ship from Lebanon to the United States with his mother and three siblings. Within a...
As an Iranian woman, writing poetry about her own love and lust launched Forough Farrokhzad into infamy. She broke the barriers of sex and s...
Without knowing it, you have probably heard of or read Rumi's words before. Perhaps you were between pain and letting go or wanting and find...
In a single move, Huda Shaarawi cemented her legacy in Egypt's women's movement. She stepped down from a train in Cairo and before a crowd,...
Few are born with as much natural charm and talent as Omar Sharif. The Egyptian actor, with his gap-toothed grin, catapulted to internationa...
How many entertainers can hold an audience's attention for hours with a single song? Egypt's Umm Kulthum could, but she was extraordinary -...
In Season 2, Hindsight dives into the lives of famed writers and entertainers who did what others thought impossible. You've heard of them,...
Thousands arrested, injured, killed. The price for a revolution in Egypt was high, but when millions across the country protested for change...
Dalida broke the glass ceiling for women in the music industry. Her superstar status has even been compared to the likes of Madonna and C&ea...
Both Egypt and Israel say they were happy with his work, but Ashraf Marwan died under mysterious circumstances. So, someone was unhappy. A s...
Saddam Hussein was reviled and loved, and not necessarily in equal measure. His supporters say the Iraqi president was "just in his injustic...
Eccentric, demanding and unapologetic, Dame Zaha Hadid was one of the most innovative architects in modern times, even though her designs an...
TE Lawrence became one of the most famous figures to emerge from World War I. Not so much for his role as a British intelligence officer. No...
Ever wonder what history's most famous and infamous people would say if you asked them for their side of the story? Now you can. In a new do...