The origins of humanity in Africa | Africa’s Great Civilisations

New Stone Age | Learning Zone

Life in Neolithic Britain through the eyes of one family as they attempt to hunt and farm enough food to live on.

1: Beginnings | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Michael Wood journeys through the subcontinent, tracing the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. He charts the...

2: Birth of a Nation | In Search of Scotland

By the first century, Scotland was in an age of competing tribes speaking different languages. Fiona Watson examines how the Pic...

Iron Age: daily life | Learning Zone

Raksha visits re-enactors who build roundhouses and try to live as they think Iron Age people did.

Iron Age: tribes | Learning Zone

Raksha explores Maiden Castle; the biggest Iron Age Hill Fort in Britain.

S2E7: Piltdown Man | Days That Shook the World

Using dramatized reconstructions, this program recalls the 'Piltdown Man' hoax in 1953.

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice

Professor Alice Roberts on the natural history of the woolly mammoth, revealing adaptations that helped the species evolve from their or...

1: Mysterious Ancestors | In Search of Scotland

Exploring Scotland's dramatic history, Dr Fiona Watson begins with our mysterious Neolithic ancestors.

1: Stonehenge | The Flying Archaeologist

Archaeologist Ben Robinson flies over Wiltshire to uncover new discoveries in the Stone Age landscape. Sites found from the air have...

1: Survival | Andrew Marr's History of the World

Andrew Marr traces 70,000 years of history, beginning with the earliest humans. From Africa, they spread around the world, a...

2: Norfolk Broads | The Flying Archaeologist

Ben Robinson flies over the Broads where photos have revealed 945 previously unknown ancient sites, many of which have historian...

Amanirenas | Africa's Great Civilisations

Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates Amanirenas, the Queen of the Kingdom of Kush.

Bronze Age Britain | Learning Zone

Life in Bronze Age Britain through the eyes of one family as they learn how copper and tin is mined, and make bronze using a furnace.

Bronze Age Stonehenge gold | Learning Zone

There are also lots of barrow burials around Stonehenge and one of them, Bush Barrow Man, is used to find out about Bronze Age times.

Bronze Age: making metal | Learning Zone

Raksha visits Butser Ancient Farm to make a bronze age axe head exactly the way Bronze Age man would have done so.

Bronze Age: wool | Learning Zone

Raksha visits the Bronze Age at an ancient farm and learns how to make woollen cloth.

Early humans and the development of culture | Africa's Great Civilisations

Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates early human migration from Africa and the development of culture...

Europe's first farmers | Europe: A Natural History

An exploration of the first farmers in Mesopotamia.

Flint | The Great British Countryside

Julia Bradbury investigates flint and the ancient craft of arrowhead making that it was used for.

Iron Age Britain | Learning Zone

Life in Iron Age Britain through the eyes of one family, as the impact of the new, and cheaper, stronger, metal on their life is explored in...