<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Oscar Wilde | 2001-12-06 | ||
| Third Crusade | 2001-11-29 | ||
| Oceanography | 2001-11-22 | ||
| Surrealism | 2001-11-15 | ||
| The British Empire | 2001-11-08 | ||
| Confucius | 2001-11-01 | ||
| Napoleon and Wellington | 2001-10-25 | ||
| Democracy | 2001-10-18 | ||
| Byzantium | 2001-07-19 | ||
| Dickens | 2001-07-12 | ||
| The Earth's Origins | 2001-07-05 | ||
| Existentialism | 2001-06-28 | ||
| The Sonnet | 2001-06-21 | ||
| The French Revolution's Legacy | 2001-06-14 | ||
| Evil | 2001-05-03 | ||
| Literary Modernism | 2001-04-26 | ||
| The Glorious Revolution | 2001-04-19 | ||
| Black Holes | 2001-04-12 | ||
| The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th century | 2001-04-05 | ||
| The Philosophy of Love | 2001-03-29 |