<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| The Renaissance | 2000-06-08 | ||
| The American Ideal | 2000-06-01 | ||
| Chemical Elements | 2000-05-25 | ||
| The Wars of the Roses | 2000-05-18 | ||
| Shakespeare's Work | 2000-05-11 | ||
| Death | 2000-05-04 | ||
| Human Origins | 2000-04-27 | ||
| Englishness | 2000-04-20 | ||
| New Wars | 2000-04-13 | ||
| The Natural Order | 2000-04-06 | ||
| History and Understanding the Past | 2000-03-30 | ||
| Materialism and the Consumer | 2000-03-23 | ||
| Lenin | 2000-03-16 | ||
| The Age of Doubt | 2000-03-09 | ||
| Metamorphosis | 2000-03-02 | ||
| Grand Unified Theory | 2000-02-24 | ||
| Reading | 2000-02-17 | ||
| Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment | 2000-02-10 | ||
| Republicanism | 2000-02-03 | ||
| Economic Rights | 2000-01-27 |