<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Angels | 2005-03-24 | ||
| Dark Energy | 2005-03-17 | ||
| Modernist Utopias | 2005-03-11 | ||
| Stoicism | 2005-03-04 | ||
| Alchemy | 2005-02-24 | ||
| The Cambrian Period | 2005-02-17 | ||
| The Mind/Body Problem | 2005-01-13 | ||
| Tsar Alexander II's assassination | 2005-01-06 | ||
| The Roman Republic | 2004-12-30 | ||
| Faust | 2004-12-23 | ||
| The Second Law of Thermodynamics | 2004-12-16 | ||
| Machiavelli and the Italian City States | 2004-12-09 | ||
| Jung | 2004-12-02 | ||
| The Venerable Bede | 2004-11-25 | ||
| Higgs Boson | 2004-11-18 | ||
| Zoroastrianism | 2004-11-11 | ||
| Electrickery | 2004-11-04 | ||
| Witchcraft | 2004-10-21 | ||
| Rhetoric | 2004-10-14 | ||
| The Han Synthesis | 2004-10-14 |