January 10, 2003 • 50m
A shipwreck off Devon uncovered much more than a haul of Islamic coins and jewellery - it also revealed a forgotten time when coas...Read more
January 17, 2003 • 50m
For over 1,000 years, Maya kings ruled Central America's jungles. While Europe was just emerging from the Dark Ages, they were gre...Read more
January 24, 2003 • 50m
Stephenson's Rocket is famous because of the contest it won in 1829. Few realise it triumphed by default when its two rivals had t...Read more
January 31, 2003 • 50m
Ramesses III is remembered as Egypt's last great pharaoh, but the truth was very different. With the help of papyrus that was neve...Read more
February 7, 2003 • 50m
The first action involving the British in the First World War was a cavalry skirmish - German lances against British swords. Withi...Read more
October 19, 2003 • 50m
Due to be taken out of service on Friday, the world's only supersonic passenger plane is finally brought to ground. But our love a...Read more
October 24, 2003 • 50m
The Battle of Rorke's Drift is routinely presented as a significant British victory of the Zulu wars. Yet on the same day, at the ...Read more
October 31, 2003 • 50m
Freak weather conditions on 31 January 1953 led to a storm that cut a destructive swathe across the North Sea coastlines of Britai...Read more
November 7, 2003 • 50m
Circus strongman-turned-adventurer Giovanni Belzoni filled the British Museum with some of ancient Egypt's greatest treasures, inc...Read more
November 14, 2003 • 50m
Revealing the extraordinary detective story behind the disappearance in 1944 of highly decorated pilot Wing Commander Adrian Warbu...Read more
November 21, 2003 • 50m
For 40 years the science world was hoodwinked by a forged "missing link" between ape and man. But who was responsible for the infa...Read more
November 28, 2003 • 50m
The Second World War Normandy landings helped seal Winston Churchill's reputation as a great wartime leader, but 29 years earlier ...Read more
December 5, 2003 • 50m
In a dramatised account, Timewatch follows a German soldier caught up in the most destructive conflict in history - Hitler's invas...Read more