<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Plasma | 2016-10-13 | ||
| Lakshmi | 2016-10-06 | ||
| Animal Farm | 2016-09-29 | ||
| Zeno's Paradoxes | 2016-09-22 | ||
| The Invention of Photography | 2016-07-07 | ||
| Sovereignty | 2016-06-30 | ||
| Songs of Innocence and of Experience | 2016-06-23 | ||
| The Bronze Age Collapse | 2016-06-16 | ||
| Penicillin | 2016-06-09 | ||
| Margery Kempe and English Mysticism | 2016-06-02 | ||
| The Gettysburg Address | 2016-05-26 | ||
| The Muses | 2016-05-19 | ||
| Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot' | 2016-05-12 | ||
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 2016-05-05 | ||
| Euclid's Elements | 2016-04-28 | ||
| 1816, the Year Without a Summer | 2016-04-21 | ||
| The Neutron | 2016-04-14 | ||
| The Sikh Empire | 2016-04-07 | ||
| Agrippina the Younger | 2016-03-31 | ||
| Aurora Leigh | 2016-03-24 |