Andrew Marr's History of the World

Season 1

• E1 Survival 2012-09-23 · 50m How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
• E2 Age of Empire 2012-09-30 · 50m The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
• E3 The Word and The Sword 2012-10-07 · 50m Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
• E4 Into the Light 2012-10-14 · 50m The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
• E5 Age of Plunder 2012-10-21 · 50m Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
• E6 Revolution 2012-10-28 · 50m A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
• E7 Age of Industry 2012-11-04 · 50m How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
• E8 Age of Extremes 2012-11-11 · 50m The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.