<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Washington and the American Revolution | 2004-06-24 | ||
| Renaissance Magic | 2004-06-17 | ||
| Empiricism | 2004-06-10 | ||
| Babylon | 2004-06-03 | ||
| The Planets | 2004-05-27 | ||
| Toleration | 2004-05-20 | ||
| Zero | 2004-05-13 | ||
| Heroism | 2004-05-06 | ||
| Tea | 2004-04-29 | ||
| Hysteria | 2004-04-22 | ||
| The Later Romantics | 2004-04-15 | ||
| The Fall | 2004-04-08 | ||
| China's Warring States period | 2004-04-01 | ||
| Theories of Everything | 2004-03-25 | ||
| The Norse Gods | 2004-03-11 | ||
| Dreams | 2004-03-04 | ||
| The Mughal Empire | 2004-02-25 | ||
| Rutherford | 2004-02-19 | ||
| The Sublime | 2004-02-12 | ||
| Thermopylae | 2004-02-05 |