Air Date
September 23, 2012
Episodes
8 episodes
Andrew Marr's History of the World
Season 1
Episodes
1. Survival
5.0
September 23, 2012
50 min
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
2. Age of Empire
5.0
September 30, 2012
50 min
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
3. The Word and the Sword
5.0
October 7, 2012
50 min
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
4. Into the Light
5.0
October 14, 2012
50 min
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
5. Age of Plunder
5.0
October 21, 2012
50 min
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
6. Revolution
5.0
October 28, 2012
50 min
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
7. Age of Industry
5.0
November 4, 2012
50 min
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
8. Age of Extremes
November 11, 2012
50 min
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.
