History Uncensored

What even is time? Physicists still can’t fully agree.

Einstein showed that time bends and warps. Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli argues it may not fundamentally exist at all. And yet modern life is ruled by clocks, schedules, deadlines and timestamps measured down to fractions of a second.

Across ancient civilizations, humans developed ways to make the invisible movements of the sky measurable - first through monuments, then sundials, water clocks and eventually mechanical timekeeping.

Featuring interviews with science communicator Finn Burridge from Royal Observatory Greenwich and author Jonathan Martineau, Bianca Nobilo examines how time evolved from a natural experience into a system that structures modern life itself.

Bianca Nobilo takes us through the history behind the headlines again as President Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping in China in his first visit there in over a decade.

The relationship between the two countries is one of the most important in the world. What happens between them shapes the future of the global order - trade, war, Taiwan, the Middle East, climate change. But it hasn’t always been a relationship between equals.

How did America help great its own biggest rival? Listen to find out...

Puyi began life as the emperor of China, carried into the Forbidden City as a toddler and placed upon the Dragon Throne before he was even three years old.

At least in theory, Puyi ruled over around a quarter of the world’s population. Raised inside one of the most isolated and luxurious courts on earth, he was treated as divine. Eunuchs dressed him, bowed before him, and carried out his every command.

Outside the palace walls, however, the world that had created emperors was beginning to collapse...

Within just a few years, the Qing dynasty fell, ending more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China.

Bianca Nobilo takes a look at revolution, war, Soviet imprisonment, communist “re-education,” and finally Puyi’s extraordinary final transformation into an ordinary citizen in Mao’s China.

Right now, there are more than 12,000 nuclear weapons on Earth.

The detonation of just one could kill hundreds of thousands, flatten a city, poison survivors for generations, and reshape global politics permanently.

These weapons are the ultimate currency of power. So why do some countries get to have them, while others are told they can’t?

Why is Israel widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, while Iran faces intense international pressure over its program? How did North Korea—one of the world’s most repressive regimes—successfully build a nuclear arsenal, while countries like Germany and Japan did not? And what does it say about global security that Ukraine gave up the nuclear weapons on its territory in exchange for guarantees… only to later be invaded?

We’ll explore the history of nuclear proliferation, the political decisions behind who gets the bomb, and the high-stakes risks that continue to worry security experts.

Bianca Nobilo digs into the history of who gets nuclear weapons, who doesn’t - and who decides.

America was born by rejecting a king so why, 250 years later, does it keep rolling out the royal treatment?

Bianca Nobilo explores the long, strange evolution of the US–UK relationship: from revolution and resentment to handshakes, state dinners and carefully choreographed diplomacy. Why has Donald Trump received such extraordinary royal attention? What does it reveal about power, politics, and perception on the global stage?

Along the way, Bianca unpacks how ceremony became strategy, how soft power shapes hard politics and why the British monarchy still plays a crucial role in managing one of the world’s most important relationships.

Behind the pageantry - what do these encounters really tell us?