September 23, 2012 · 50 min
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
September 30, 2012 · 50 min
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
October 7, 2012 · 50 min
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
October 14, 2012 · 50 min
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
October 21, 2012 · 50 min
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
October 28, 2012 · 50 min
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
November 4, 2012 · 50 min
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
November 11, 2012 · 50 min
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.
