<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| The Spanish Inquisition | 2006-06-22 | ||
| Carbon | 2006-06-15 | ||
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | 2006-06-08 | ||
| The Heart | 2006-06-01 | ||
| Mathematics and Music | 2006-05-25 | ||
| Mill | 2006-05-18 | ||
| Fairies | 2006-05-11 | ||
| Astronomy and Empire | 2006-05-04 | ||
| The Great Exhibition of 1851 | 2006-04-27 | ||
| Immunisation | 2006-04-20 | ||
| The Oxford Movement | 2006-04-13 | ||
| Goethe | 2006-04-06 | ||
| The Carolingian Renaissance | 2006-03-30 | ||
| The Royal Society | 2006-03-23 | ||
| Don Quixote | 2006-03-16 | ||
| Negative Numbers | 2006-03-09 | ||
| Friendship | 2006-03-02 | ||
| Catherine the Great | 2006-02-23 | ||
| Human Evolution | 2006-02-16 | ||
| Chaucer | 2006-02-09 |