<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Hadrian's Wall | 2012-07-12 | ||
| Scepticism | 2012-07-05 | ||
| Al-Kindi | 2012-06-28 | ||
| Annie Besant | 2012-06-21 | ||
| James Joyce's Ulysses | 2012-06-14 | ||
| King Solomon | 2012-06-07 | ||
| The Trojan War | 2012-05-31 | ||
| Marco Polo | 2012-05-24 | ||
| Clausewitz and On War | 2012-05-17 | ||
| Game Theory | 2012-05-10 | ||
| Voltaire's Candide | 2012-05-03 | ||
| The Battle of Bosworth Field | 2012-04-26 | ||
| Neoplatonism | 2012-04-19 | ||
| Early Geology | 2012-04-12 | ||
| George Fox and the Quakers | 2012-04-05 | ||
| The Measurement of Time | 2012-03-29 | ||
| Moses Mendelssohn | 2012-03-22 | ||
| Vitruvius and De Architectura | 2012-03-15 | ||
| Lyrical Ballads | 2012-03-08 | ||
| Benjamin Franklin | 2012-03-01 |