<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Dante's Inferno | 2008-07-03 | ||
| The Arab Conquests | 2008-06-26 | ||
| The Music of the Spheres | 2008-06-19 | ||
| The Metaphysical Poets | 2008-06-19 | ||
| The Riddle of the Sands | 2008-06-12 | ||
| Lysenkoism | 2008-06-05 | ||
| Probability | 2008-05-29 | ||
| The Black Death | 2008-05-22 | ||
| The Library at Nineveh | 2008-05-15 | ||
| The Brain | 2008-05-08 | ||
| The Enclosures of the 18th Century | 2008-05-01 | ||
| Materialism | 2008-04-24 | ||
| Yeats and Irish Politics | 2008-04-17 | ||
| The Norman Yoke | 2008-04-10 | ||
| The Laws of Motion | 2008-04-03 | ||
| The Dissolution of the Monasteries | 2008-03-27 | ||
| Kierkegaard | 2008-03-20 | ||
| The Greek Myths | 2008-03-13 | ||
| Ada Lovelace | 2008-03-06 | ||
| Lear | 2008-02-28 |