5 episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20000131 | Dr Irving Finkel, assistant keeper of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum, whose collection includes 120,000 clay tablets with inscriptions from the Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations. |
| 02 | 20000201 | Dr Jonathan Betts, curator of horology at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, whose collection of a thousand clocks, watches and timepieces includes Harrison's famous clocks which helped to solve the problem of the measurement of longitude. |
| 03 | 20000202 | Christopher Zeuner, museum director, Weald and Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton near Chichester, who has 40 historic buildings in his care, including a medieval farmstead and a Victorian school. |
| 04 | 20000203 | Paul Cornish, curator of firearms at the Imperial War Museum, London, whose display includes 300 firearms, and who looks after the National Collection of 20th-century Military Firearms and the Edged Weapons Collection. |
| 05 LAST | 20000204 | Ken Arnold, head of exhibitions at the Wellcome Trust, whose work brings together medicine and artists as well as presenting exhibitions which take a cultural view of medical practice and history. |