Episode 1
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
Episode 2
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
Episode 3
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
Episode 4
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
Episode 5
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
Episode 6
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
Episode 7
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
Episode 8
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.
