One of the BBC's typically exemplary adaptations of one of the great Bard's lesser known works performed by pretty much the cream of British theatre. find out more...

Beginnings: Covering the period 3100 BCE – 1000 CE. Simon Schama starts his story in the stone age village of Skara Brae, Orkney. Over the next four thousand years Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Danes, and Christian missionaries arrive, fight, settle and leave their mark on what will become the nations of Britain.

Conquest! Covering 1000–1087. 1066 is not the best remembered date in British history for nothing. In the space of nine hours whilst the Battle of Hastings ra find out more...