Season 27 (2008)

Viking Voyage
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January 5, 2008 • 50m

In July 2007, 61 men and women set off on an extraordinary voyage to sail the world's largest reconstructed Viking ship from Denma...Read more

Bloody Omaha
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January 6, 2008 • 1h

The D-Day landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy on 6 June 1944 is widely regarded as a great victory, but the operation was almost an...Read more

The Wreckers
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January 12, 2008 • 50m

In January 2007 the MSC Napoli ran aground, spilling its cargo on a Devon beach. Opportunists plundered the ship's booty while the...Read more

The Greatest Knight
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January 19, 2008 • 50m

The medieval mêlée tournament was a brutal free-for-all with sharpened weapons, few rules, and one undisputed champion: William Ma...Read more

The Pharaoh's Lost City
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January 26, 2008 • 50m

More than 3,000 years ago the rebel Pharaoh Akhenaten marched his people from Thebes to a desert plain beside the Nile. Within 20 ...Read more

Ten Pound Poms
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February 2, 2008 • 50m

Some 30,000 Brits head for Australia each year - just a fraction of the one million who gambled on the ten-pound assisted-passage ...Read more

Stonehenge
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September 27, 2008 • 55m

Experts have always believed that Britain's most iconic ancient monument was designed as a burial site. Two years ago a radical ne...Read more

Britain's Forgotten Floods
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October 4, 2008 • 55m

The Asian tsunami of 2004 was a devastating natural disaster of epic proportions. Many believe a huge wave on this scale couldn't ...Read more

The Boxer Rebellion
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October 11, 2008 • 55m

Peking, June 1900: The "Society of Right and Harmonious Fists", known by Europeans as the Boxers, entrapped more than 3,000 foreig...Read more

Young Victoria
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October 18, 2008 • 50m

How did an unassuming little girl become the most powerful woman in the world? At her birth, few believed Princess Victoria would ...Read more

The Last Day of World War One
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November 1, 2008 • 1h

Michael Palin tells the explosive, poignant story of the First World War's final day, which marks the start of the BBC's 90 Years ...Read more