<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| The Physics of Time | 2008-12-18 | ||
| Heat | 2008-12-04 | ||
| The Great Reform Act | 2008-11-27 | ||
| Neuroscience | 2008-11-13 | ||
| The Fire of London | 2008-11-11 | ||
| Aristotle's Politics | 2008-11-06 | ||
| Bolivar | 2008-10-30 | ||
| The Baroque Movement | 2008-10-23 | ||
| Vitalism | 2008-10-16 | ||
| Godel's Incompleteness Theorems | 2008-10-09 | ||
| The Translation Movement | 2008-10-02 | ||
| Miracles | 2008-09-25 | ||
| Tacitus and the Decadence of Rome | 2008-07-10 | ||
| 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 |