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Working in ancient Greece, Phineas is an established myth writer who has finished his latest tale about a father and a son. He meets with two young,...
Ancients
The worldwide Nazi search for archaeological and historical support for their beliefs in the Aryan (German) master race.
Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail
In Search of Myths and Heroes
Michael Wood embarks on a great historical adventure, exploring the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China's distinctive...
The Story of China
Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf...
Michael Wood on Beowulf
Michael Wood explores village life in 14th century England, a time of plague, war and famine. Through the use of a remarkably complete set of...
Christina: A Medieval Life
Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and...
Gilbert White: the Nature Man
A former safecracker is lured back for one last job by an old flame and business partner. This is filmed in the style of a 1940s 'film-noir.'
The Home Invaders
Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan...
Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor
Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden is the...
Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman
Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of...
Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet