September 30, 2000 • 1h
Simon Schama starts his story in the Stone Age village of Skara Brae, Orkney. Over the next four thousand years Romans, Anglo-Saxo...Read more
October 7, 2000 • 1h
1066 is not the best remembered date in British history for nothing. In the space of nine hours whilst the Battle of Hastings rage...Read more
October 14, 2000 • 1h
There is no saga more powerful than that of the warring dynasty - domineering father, beautiful, scheming mother and squabbling, m...Read more
October 21, 2000 • 1h
Nations is the epic account of how the nations of Britain emerged from under the hammer of England's "Longshanks" King Edward I, w...Read more
October 28, 2000 • 1h
It took only six years for the plague to ravage the British Isles. Its impact was to last for generations. But from the ashes of t...Read more
November 4, 2000 • 1h
Here Simon Schama charts the upheaval caused as a country renowned for its piety, whose king styled himself Defender of the Faith,...Read more
November 11, 2000 • 1h
This is the story of two queens - Elizabeth I the consummate politician and Mary Queen of Scots the Catholic mother. It is also th...Read more