pt. I, disc 1. 1. Long shadows and the Dark Ages ; 2. Diocletian and the crises of the third century ; 3. Constantine the Great : Christian emperor ; 4. Pagans and Christians in the fourth century ; 5. Athletes of God ; 6. Augustine, part one
pt. I, disc 2. 7. Augustine, part two ; 8. Barbarians at the gate ; 9. Franks and Goths ; 10. Arthur's England ; 11. Justinian and the Byzantine Empire ; 12. The house of Islam
pt. II, disc 3. 13. Rise of the Carolingians ; 14. Charlemagne ; 15. Carolingian Christianity ; 16. The Carolingian Renaissance ; 17. Fury of the Northmen ; 18. Collapse of the Carolingian Empire
pt. II, disc 4. 19. The birth of France and Germany ; 20. England in the age of Alfred ; 21. Al-Andalus : Islamic Spain ; 22. Carolingian Europe : gateway to the Middle Ages ; 23. Family life : how then became now ; 24. Long shadows and the Dark Ages revisited.