Tony goes back nearly 2000 years to a time when Britain was under the Roman Empire; he tells the story of an African Roman soldier who got posted to empire's most northerly outpost at Hadrian's Wall.

Tony takes goes back to the beginning of last century; It's a time of elegance, innovation, class division and social progress: the Edwardian period, and he begins with two people who travelled on the Titanic.

Tony heads back to the 1950s, remembered as an optimistic period of social and economic regeneration; Tony begins with the story of Irish woman Mary Powell, who joins the NHS, following her childhood dream of becoming a nurse.

Tony takes goes back to the Middle Ages, a time of knights in shining armor, big-shot kings, and fabulous clothes, if you could afford them.