The Seven Ages of Britain
Submitted by vicky on Saturday, 22 November 2003 Page Views: 6920
TV and Radio
Starting on Saturday (15th November 2003) at 8pm Channel 4 will be screening a new seven part series – The Seven Ages of Britain, in which Historian Bettany Hughes explores the lives of the people of Britain from the Mesolithic to the dawning of the agricultural revolution.Places featured in Programme 1: Michelham Priory prehistoric houses, Star Carr, Footprints on Formby beach, also here, Skara Brae, West Kennett Long barrow, Hambledon Hill, Grime's Graves Flint Mines. Ring of Brodgar. Programme 2: Thames Foreshore, Cladh Hallan Roundhouses, South Uist, Grimspound, Flag Fen Visitor Centre, Butser Hill Ancient Farm, Danebury Hill Fort, Lindow Moss, Uffington White Horse, Hengistbury Head.
Made by Wildfire Television with history film producer, Justin Pollard, the series tells an often overlooked story - the history of the people as a whole and their experience of life through the ages. It explores the lives and times of the ordinary people of Britain who rarely emerge into the light of written history but nonetheless were witness to its every twist and turn. This is a journey to meet history's silent majority and catch a glimpse of their experience of life in each age against the backdrop of the grander events of that time. It is the story of those who never had the privilege of making history but to whom it happened nonetheless - who lived with it and survived its consequences.
The Programmes will cover:
1 - The Mesolithic to the mid-Bronze Age
2 - Late Bronze Age to the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age
3 - Roman Britain
4 - Anglo-Saxon Britain
5 - The Norman Conquest to the Black Death
6 - Black Death to the eve of the Reformation
7 - Reformation to the Enlightenment.
Check out the Channel 4 website for further details of programme scheduling.
Note: What did you think of the first programme? Read more in Miles Russell's Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain, Only £6.99+p&p in our Online Shop. Don't forget the second in the series at 8pm tonight and see more about the book of the series.
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