Season 22 (2003)

White Slaves, Pirate Gold
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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

Lost Cities of the Maya
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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

Rocket and Its Rivals
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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

Ramesses III - Behind the Myth of a Pharaoh
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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

1914: The War Revolution
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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

Concorde: A Love Story
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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

Zulu: The True Story
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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

The Greatest Storm
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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

The Last Tomb Raider
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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

Mystery of the Missing Ace
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November 14, 2003 • 50m

Revealing the extraordinary detective story behind the disappearance in 1944 of highly decorated pilot Wing Commander Adrian Warbu...Read more

Britain's Greatest Hoax
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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

Gallipoli: The First D-Day
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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

Through Hell for Hitler
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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