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.
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Orkney's Stone Age Temple
Neil Oliver investigates the discovery of a 5,000-year-old temple in Orkney. Built 500 years before Stonehenge, the temple has triggered new thoughts about the beliefs of Neolit ...
18-07-2024
BBC 4
Series 2: 4. Age Of Romans
Neil Oliver completes his epic journey through thousands of years of ancient history with the modern marvels of Rome. He digs beneath a London tower block, discovers building wo ...
18-06-2022
BBC 4
Series 2: 3. Age Of Invasion
Continuing his epic story, Neil Oliver explores the remains of brutal Iron Age battles and Celtic rebellion as he reaches the moment when Celtic Britain was ripped apart by the ...
11-06-2022
BBC 4
Series 2: 2. Age Of Warriors
Continuing his journey into our ancient past, Neil Oliver explores the age of Celtic Britain - a time of warriors, druids, and kings of unimaginable wealth. \n\nNeil encounters ...
04-06-2022
BBC 4
Series 2: 1. Age Of Iron
Neil Oliver continues his epic story of how Britain and its people came to be. Diving for 3,000-year-old treasure and pot-holing through an ancient copper mine, he discovers how ...
28-05-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 4. Age Of Bronze
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, internation ...
12-05-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. Age Of Cosmology
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, inclu ...
30-04-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. Age Of Ancestors
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 Eur ...
23-04-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Age Of Ice
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 episod ...
09-04-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. Age Of Ancestors
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 Eur ...
23-04-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. Age Of Cosmology
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, inclu ...
30-04-2022
BBC 4
Series 2: 3. Age Of Invasion
Continuing his epic story, Neil Oliver explores the remains of brutal Iron Age battles and Celtic rebellion as he reaches the moment when Celtic Britain was ripped apart by the ...
11-06-2022
BBC 4
Orkney's Stone Age Temple
Neil Oliver investigates the discovery of a 5,000-year-old temple in Orkney. Built 500 years before Stonehenge, the temple has triggered new thoughts about the beliefs of Neolit ...
18-07-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 4. Age Of Bronze
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, internation ...
12-05-2022
BBC 4
Series 2: 1. Age Of Iron
Neil Oliver continues his epic story of how Britain and its people came to be. Diving for 3,000-year-old treasure and pot-holing through an ancient copper mine, he discovers how ...
28-05-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Age Of Ice
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 episod ...
09-04-2022
BBC 4
Series 2: 4. Age Of Romans
Neil Oliver completes his epic journey through thousands of years of ancient history with the modern marvels of Rome. He digs beneath a London tower block, discovers building wo ...
18-06-2022
BBC 4
Series 2: 2. Age Of Warriors
Continuing his journey into our ancient past, Neil Oliver explores the age of Celtic Britain - a time of warriors, druids, and kings of unimaginable wealth. \n\nNeil encounters ...
04-06-2022
BBC 4