In the first of this film series, Dr. Michael Scott travels across Greece, exploring the lives of the people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature, and sport. He visits ancient cities, battlefields, great ruins, and the wild countryside in his search to uncover how the ancient Greeks lived. Democracy, physical fitness, worship, citizenship, pederastic relationships, infanticide, and art create a paradoxical portrait...

During Europe's Middle Ages, mathematics flourished primarily on other shores. This program follows Professor Marcus du Sautoy as he discusses mathematical achievements of Asia, the Islamic world, and early-Renaissance Europe. Topics include China's invention of a decimal place number system and the development of an early version of sudoku; India's contribution to trigonometry and creation of a symbol for the number zero, as well as Indians' understanding...

As long as economic highs and lows continue in what many view as a destructive global pattern, and as long as the gap between rich and poor produces tensions across the world, a perceived basis for anti-capitalist thought will most likely persist. Is there even a case to be made, despite the ending of the Cold War, that socialist ideas remain relevant? Can they be taken seriously in an age of global trade and finance? This program reflects on one...