The Vikings in North America
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June 18, 1966 • 50m

Glyn Daniel, Magnus Magnusson and Gwyn Jones discuss the evidence for possible Viking travels to North America in the wake of the ...Read more

Nimrud: The Story of a Dig
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July 16, 1966

Professor Max Mallowan along with Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Dr R. D. Barnett and Gordon Waterfield present findings from the excavatio...Read more

Stonehenge: Prehistoric Computer?/The First European
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August 13, 1966

• Professor Gerald Hawkins's theory that Stonehenge was used for astronomy. • Dr. John Napier and Professor Kenneth Oakley discus...Read more

Royal Ship/Royal Palace/Royal Grave
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September 10, 1966

The buried ship at Sutton Hoo, the possibility of Somerset's Cadbury Castle being Camelot of Arthurian legend, and the Irish burial mound of Newgrange

The Invasion That Never Was.../... And the Last Invasion
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October 8, 1966

• General Sir Brian Horrocks on the fictional 1875 Battle of Dorking Gap and its effect on the popular imagination. • The Norman ...Read more

London's Burning
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November 5, 1966

The Great Fire of London of 1666

The Treasure of Priam
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December 3, 1966

Heinrich Schliemann's 1873 discovery of the Treasure of Priam at Hisarlik, and its disappearance from World War II era Berlin

The Holy Sailors + The Roman Goose March
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December 31, 1966

• The evidence for pre-Norse settlement of Iceland by Irish monks. • Ancient Rome's best geese were reputedly sourced from northe...Read more