5 episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20070808 | Germaine Greer champions the vast natural resource of the Thames Estuary while historian Tristram Hunt argues for Stonehenge, one of the world's great heritage sites. |
| 02 | 20070815 | Dr Colin White, director of the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth, argues for the restoration of the Cutty Sark, while film director Terence Davies calls for a permanent home for the British Film Institute Archive that contains nearly a quarter of a million films and a vast part of our visual history. |
| 03 | 20070822 | Jonathan Foyle of the World Monuments Fund calls for the urgent restoration of Canterbury Cathedral's ageing infrastructure. Style guru Stephen Bayley argues for Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull, the most expensive work created by a living artist. |
| 04 | 20070829 | This programme contrasts the worth of Nicholas Poussin's 17th-century religious paintings The Seven Sacraments with the redundant Chatterley Whitfield Colliery in Stoke-on-Trent. Should an art treasure be purchased for the nation or should an important link with our industrial past be restored? |
| 05 LAST | 20070905 | Looking back over the series in which a variety of national treasures have been examined for both their practical and non-monetary value, the programme asks if politicians and funding agencies should adopt a new approach to culture. |