All About Colors

Curious about colors beyond the canvas?

4.7 (18)

84 mins

Enter a vivid world of color with our captivating stories, revealing the pigments that shaped history. Explore the allure of ochre, the dark side of white paint, and the power of red symbolism. Uncover forbidden paints in Hong Kong, Napoleon's green oasis poison, and the secret color codes of Virgin Mary's wardrobe. Dive into the evolution of color in art, technology's impact on cinema, and the mysteries of color names in this enthralling collection.

Ep 1:

Did Ancient Eyes See Blue?

A linguist's obsession with Homer unravels a startling theory: maybe humans once couldn't see blue at all. From ochre's ancient origins to red's political power, color's earliest chapters begin here.

Ep 2:

Rainbows, Ruin, and Radiant White

Isolated by plague, young Newton shatters centuries of belief about light and color with two simple prisms—while across history, the whitest paint imaginable turns out to be a slow poison.

Ep 3:

Sacred Hues and Accidental Rainbows

Ancient Vedic seers mapped the universe onto seven sacred colors and the human body itself, while a teenage chemist's failed experiment accidentally births the entire synthetic color industry.

Ep 4:

Poisoned Palettes and Heaven's Blue

A duke's fashionable green rooms echo an emperor's deadly wallpaper, exposing beauty's darkest secret—then we trace ultramarine's journey from Afghan mountains to the robes of the Virgin Mary.

Ep 5:

The Hidden Lives of Pencil and Charcoal

Smugglers, spies, and Napoleonic blockades shaped the humble pencil's surprising past, while a family's financial desperation and a burning willow twig spark Britain's charcoal legacy.

Ep 6:

Blood, War, and the Color Yellow

In war-torn Southeast Asia, a legendary yellow pigment bleeds from trees for a year—only to become entangled with landmines, smuggled resin, and life-or-death danger.

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