Documentary Series

The Road to War – S1, Ep1 – Great Britain

Great Britain Series looking at the events that led up to World War II. Charles Wheeler looks at how Neville[…]

Deliverance Day 6: Lieutenant Jimmy Langley and Major Angus McCorquodale of the Coldstream Guards receive orders to hold the perimeter[…]

Retreat Day 1: Captain Bill Tennant, Royal Navy, at the Admiralty receives reports of the British Expeditionary Force’s retreat and[…]

The Once and Future King King Arthur, a 5th-century Celtic monarch who battled invading Anglo-Saxons, first appears in a history[…]

Jason and the Golden Fleece The truth behind Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece

The Search for Shangri-La The darker the age, the more desperate we are for illumination. This is certainly true of[…]

The Queen of Sheba The story of the Queen of Sheba appears in religious texts sacred to Jews, Christians, and[…]

City of Man, City of God In the last of the series, Richard Miles examines the rise and fall of[…]

Republic of Virtue How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become[…]

Return of the King Richard Miles traces Alexander the Great’s battle-scarred route through Turkey, Syria and Lebanon to Egypt and[…]