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  • 2011-02-09T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 4h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Neil Oliver tells the epic story of how Britain and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history—the beginnings of our world forged in ice, stone, and bronze

4 episodes

Series Premiere

2011-02-09T21:00:00Z

1x01 Age of Ice

Series Premiere

1x01 Age of Ice

  • 2011-02-09T21:00:00Z1h

Neil Oliver travels back to ice age Britain as he begins the epic story of the evolution of the land and its occupants over thousands of years of ancient history. In this episode he describes a struggle for survival in a brutal world of climate change and environmental catastrophe.

2011-02-16T21:00:00Z

1x02 Age of Ancestors

1x02 Age of Ancestors

  • 2011-02-16T21:00:00Z1h

Neil Oliver continues the story of how today's Britain and its people were forged over thousands of years of ancient history. It's 4,000 BC and the first farmers arrive from Europe, with seismic consequences for the local hunter-gatherers.

2011-02-23T21:00:00Z

1x03 Age of Cosmology

1x03 Age of Cosmology

  • 2011-02-23T21:00:00Z1h

Neil Oliver continues his journey through the world of Ancient Britain as he encounters an age of cosmological priests and some of the greatest monuments of the Stone Age, including Stonehenge itself. This is a time of elite travellers, who were inventing the very idea of Heaven itself.

Season Finale

2011-03-02T21:00:00Z

1x04 Age of Bronze

Season Finale

1x04 Age of Bronze

  • 2011-03-02T21:00:00Z1h

Neil Oliver continues his epic tour of Britain's most distant past with the arrival of metals and the social revolution that ushered in a new age of social mobility, international trade, and village life.

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