At the Edge of the World? (2000)

Beginnings (3100 BC - 1000 AD)
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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

Conquest! (1000 - 1087)
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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

Dynasty (1087 - 1216)
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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

Nations (1216 - 1348)
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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

King Death (1348 - 1500)
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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

Burning Convictions (1500 - 1558)
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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

The Body of the Queen (1558 - 1603)
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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