<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| North and South | 2017-03-09 | ||
| The Kuiper Belt | 2017-03-02 | ||
| Seneca the Younger | 2017-02-23 | ||
| Maths in the Early Islamic World | 2017-02-16 | ||
| John Clare | 2017-02-09 | ||
| Hannah Arendt | 2017-02-02 | ||
| Parasitism | 2017-01-26 | ||
| Mary, Queen of Scots | 2017-01-19 | ||
| Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality | 2017-01-12 | ||
| Johannes Kepler | 2016-12-29 | ||
| Four Quartets | 2016-12-22 | ||
| The Gin Craze | 2016-12-15 | ||
| Harriet Martineau | 2016-12-08 | ||
| Garibaldi and the Risorgimento | 2016-12-01 | ||
| Baltic Crusades | 2016-11-24 | ||
| Justinian's Legal Code | 2016-11-17 | ||
| The Fighting Temeraire | 2016-11-10 | ||
| Epic of Gilgamesh | 2016-11-03 | ||
| John Dalton | 2016-10-27 | ||
| The 12th Century Renaissance | 2016-10-20 |