<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| The Augustan Age | 2009-06-11 | ||
| The Trial of Charles I | 2009-06-04 | ||
| St Paul | 2009-05-28 | ||
| The Whale - A History | 2009-05-21 | ||
| The Siege of Vienna | 2009-05-14 | ||
| The Magna Carta | 2009-05-07 | ||
| The Vacuum of Space | 2009-04-30 | ||
| The Building of St Petersburg | 2009-04-23 | ||
| Suffragism | 2009-04-16 | ||
| Aldous Huxley's Brave New World | 2009-04-09 | ||
| Baconian Science | 2009-04-02 | ||
| The School of Athens | 2009-03-26 | ||
| The Boxer Rebellion | 2009-03-19 | ||
| The Library of Alexandria | 2009-03-12 | ||
| The Measurement Problem in Physics | 2009-03-05 | ||
| The Waste Land and Modernity | 2009-02-26 | ||
| The Observatory at Jaipur | 2009-02-19 | ||
| Carthage's Destruction | 2009-02-12 | ||
| The Brothers Grimm | 2009-02-05 | ||
| Swift's A Modest Proposal | 2009-01-29 |