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10. "Britannia Incorporated"
Broadcast 22 May 2001 and covering 1690-1750. As the new century dawned, relations between Scotland and England had never been worse. Yet half a century later the two countries would be making a future together based on profit and interest. The new Britain was based on money, not God.

11. "The Wrong Empire"
Broadcast 29 May 2001 and covering 1750-1800. The series is the exhilarating and terrible story of how the British Empire came into being through its early settlements--the Caribbean through the sugar plantations (and helped by slavery), the land that later became the United States and India through the British East India Company--and how it eventually came to dominate the world. A story of exploration and daring, but also one of exploitation, conflict, and loss.

12. "Forces of Nature"
Broadcast 28 May 2002 and covering 1780-1832. Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the intellectuals of the "romantic generation" also discovered the plight of the common man, turning nature into a revolutionary force.