[Music] this is the story of how Britain came to be of how our land and its people were forged over thousands of years of ancient history [Music] this Britain is a strange and alien world a world that contains the hidden story of our distant prehistoric past [Music] from the enigmatic secrets of our greatest monuments the fantastic after fourteen thousand years to get a glimpse of the way at least one individual was linking to the magical worlds inhabited by the first people to make this land their hold [Music] today modern science and new archaeology are solving ancient mysteries and revealing the seismic shifts that created whole new ages that is magic [Music] the first chapter in our epic story a battle for survival in a hostile and icy world his is the oldest complete human skeleton ever found in Britain a world in which our land was being shaped by nature's most powerful forces into the Britain we know today [Music] in every corner of Britain there are relics of a long-lost past the rich heritage of a remote and distant history it's a history that goes right back to the Romans the very first people who wrote down the names and places the dates and events of life in Britain 2,000 years ago but the world I'm about to enter will take us even farther back into a far more distant past [Applause] in South Wales a team of archaeologists is searching for traces of ancient people who once lived here [Music] what they're looking for our footprints from 8,000 years ago this is a world that only survives in the remains of people and objects fragments preserved by chance for thousands of years and these precious relics give us glimpses of the people who once lived here a people who survived often against extraordinary odds [Music] when I studied to become an archaeologist that was the sheer challenge of understanding this ancient world that attracted me and the legacy that its people left behind I've come to the coast of South Wales to try and see some of the most intimate and poignant remains in the whole of Britain there beneath the waves are a few of the most fragile and fleeting traces imaginable of a group of hunters who came here 8,000 years ago the added challenge out here as well as the tides you've also got to deal with the fact that this fantastic evidence is usually concealed under feet of mud as these banks shift the boat you see just see the big toe the heel emerging from the mud with the side of the foot the heel or prominent a marked the arch of the foot and then the big toe and the rest of the toes so rather than being a depression the the way they've been preserved this is gradually filling the print with material sugar so they appear almost as a mold of that original footprint yes that's one of the best things I ever see a new about them but until you see them it just doesn't seem possible the prints reveal main women and children an entire group of nomadic hunter-gatherers that's not a fossil of that person that day that is the very D what's interesting here of course is that these are very obviously part of a trial there's another print they're rather poorly preserved not only the big tools here yes that's the right foot of the same person isn't it these were people who relied uh turley and the natural resources of wild plants and the animals that lived alongside them if you were to be offered the chance to live this life would you would you find it is an easy life they were subject to the natural hazards of the environment the bad season the harsh winter the the year when the fish simply didn't turn up so there would have been times when these communities were under extreme pressure and extreme difficulty ethos into your so-called right there [Music] when you delve into the distant past you soon realize that what you're discovering again and again are stories of survival sometimes of evidence let those faint footprints in the mud other times it's the stories of people defying the odds in a hostile world a world in which your very existence as a hunter-gatherer depends completely on your understanding of and your connection to the natural environment [Applause] three hundred generations separate us from the people who made those footprints most of whom left in a time before history the time I want to discover but human presence in Breton goes back much much further still [Music] within the storerooms of London's Natural History Museum of the remains of someone who lived a staggeringly long time ago so long ago that this human has even been classed as a different species it's a real privilege to see these and to be so close to them I can feel my hands starting to shake just with being in the vicinity these are the oldest human remains ever found in Britain it's two pieces of the same shin bone and two teeth they were dug up at a place called Boxgrove in Sussex the two teeth I've got tiny scratches on them and it's thought that they were caused by the way that this person eat meat the meat would be correcting the teeth and then the other bit slashed or we are with that tool there's enough of the shin bone to let us estimate that the individual stood about 1.8 metres tall weighing 14 stone it's always been known as Boxgrove man but of course from this there's no way of absolutely determining the sex so it could be box true of women so 14 stone and looking like a boxer she live in quite a showstopper never knows where her boyfriend was like but perhaps most amazingly of all box groove man lived half a million years ago think of that half a million years [Music] Chris stringer is a world expert on our ancient human ancestry so forth follows Boxgrove in the human story well about a hundred thousand years later but swans coming Kent we've got these human bones the back part of a skull beautifully preserved but it has one interesting feature here and actual depression is something we find in all the Neanderthals so we think swanstrom could be a very early member of the Neanderthal line of evolution so there's Neanderthals in Britain four hundred thousand years ago that's right very early ones and then for the next three or four hundred thousand years whenever we find people in Britain they're part of this evolving the Anatolian edge and it was tools like this that liberal making absolutely yes this is a hand x1 of tens of thousands that have been found in the gravels that swans come so these people were making these tools and probably using them to butcher animal carcasses it's amazing file on the one hand you're talking about a different species of human different from us and yet the tools that they made and used fits all naturally into the hand there's a real link to the humanity of these people even if they are a different species from us at what point then do we get modern human beings like you and I well much later on now modern humans had been evolving in Africa while the Neanderthals were evolving in Europe and coming to Britain and about fifty or sixty thousand years ago those modern humans started to come out of Africa and forty thousand years ago they're in France and here's one of the stone tools they were making there okay so that's been made by hands and as same as ours absolutely imagine living in a world where there are different species of people nevermind different races of different nationalities there were several human species on earth we were just one of those experiments going on on how to be human [Applause] between the distant age of our strange pre-human ancestors and the nomadic hunters who left behind the preserved footprints the very first modern humans came to Britain the earliest of all was found here on the Gower Peninsula in West Wales a discovery made over 200 years ago in 1823 an ambitious young scientist the Reverend William Buckland came here on a mission he was in search of relics of the biblical flood he'd heard that bizarrely elephant bones had been found in one of the caves that pepper this wild coast lane the thing is the cave was towards the bottom of a near-vertical cliff but Buckland couldn't wait and it seems from what we know that on the 18th of January 1823 he went right over the edge of this cliff on a rope armed only with a pick and a stoke pair of boots and now I'm gonna follow in his footsteps [Music] Bucklin didn't know it at the time but he was about to discover more than some ancient animal bones this was going to be the discovery of his life [Music] entering the cave would have been fantastically exciting for Buckland as soon as he crossed the threshold he'd have fired up his lamp and then a good scientist that he was it'll begun to make a careful assessment of everything he could see the whole scene and all of that he recorded in meticulous detail this is a book called relic we'ii diluvian II relics of the flood and this volume is one of just a couple of copies of the first edition still in existence it contains within it a depiction of the scene exactly as Buckland saw it and then drew it buckland has very helpfully drawn the hall scene there's the cave itself from the outside there's the the cliff wall and the man coming down on a on a rope and there it's aid but more interestingly is made what is effectively an excavation plan of the floor of the cave here are the elephant bones and tusks that droom can escape in the first place more intriguingly he's also drawn a full sized human skeleton and it's that human skeleton that secured this cave its place in our history [Music] it was Buckland himself who discovered it uncovering it from beneath about six inches of earth right here but I'm crouched down what on earth was going on here and what importantly who enough was it as it happened Buckland originally thought he'd found the remains of a local prostitute who had worked here during Roman times and that when she'd eventually died she'd been better than there far away from civilized society the red lady of perryland but Buckland was wrong because he actually stumbled upon human remains from a far more distant past today the red lady is kept at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History although there's no skull much of the skeleton has survived enough for scientists to reveal its studi within a few decades of Buckland's death people re-examine the skeleton they looked at the shape of the pelvis the shape of the long bones the shape of the articulation services any anatomy student today would recognize this as a skeleton not of a young woman but of a young man forensic analysis also revealed that the so-called red lady died young in his League 20s but most importantly his bones could also reveal just how long ago he left all plants and animals on earth build themselves predominantly out of carbon a tiny proportion of that carbon is radioactive carbon or carbon 14 when an animal dies the amount of carbon 14 begins slowly to decline and degrade away this process called carbon dating used a tiny amount of born from the red lady carbon atoms from the bone gave scientists a date for when he was alive an astonishing 33 thousand years ago these are the ruins of the very first modern human known to have inhabited our land 33,000 years ago when the red lady was alive Britain was very different to the one we know today not an island but a peninsula this was an eh called the Paleolithic the old storage in which a few tens of thousands of nomadic hunters she at the whole of ancient Europe you have to imagine small bands of hunters roaming through a landscape much colder than today an open tundra these were people whose survival depended uh turley and following the migrating herds of reindeer wild horse and of course mammoths [Music] it's the mammoth bones that Buckland discovered the ones he'd thought were elephant that provide clues to the possible life and death of the red lady these are the mammoth bones that sparked Buckland's visit to pavulon cave in the first place and for 200 years it seemed unaccounted for possibly lost [Music] we've rediscovered them and are now able to bring them back together with the red lady for the very first time their existence means that this sketch made by Buckland which has the human remains and the mammoth skull and tusks site-by-site isn't based on fantasy the rediscovery of the mammoth remains means that we might be able to see who the red lady was even how he died [Music] perhaps we should imagine a hunting party out on the vast plain below Pavel and Keith they bring a mammoth to be but before they can dispatch it it kills one of the number so they take the body a young man up to the cave inside they dig a grave and helium there this is a funeral ritual they also in tear some of the remains of the mammoth that killed them after all this doesn't just do on after their companion but also to the beasts now the two spirits are united in a shared death it's an extraordinarily intimate human moment from 33,000 years ago here on the farthest outreach of Europe the red lady's companions said goodbye Tom for the last time and left but the story of the red lady represents more than the burial of an intrepid mammoth hunter because the entire world he lived in a way of life that had endured for thousands upon thousands of years was coming to an end [Music] the cause was climate change on a massive scale welcome to the world of ice eh Britain thirty thousand years ago the land we call Britain along with the rest of the planet was called and getting colder forget the chill of today's British winters this was cold on a completely different scale the frozen grip of the last ice age for any nomadic hunter eventual this far north life would have been unbelievably tough and ultimately impossible eventually the glaciers advancing southwards olive oil ton Britain and two frozen wilderness [Music] the ice age reached its peak 18,000 years ago all but wiping out the entire population of Western Europe just a few groups of people survived in pockets of Refuge far to the south for thousands of years almost the whole of our land was utterly bharden and desolate desert did not just by people but by all large animals it was so-called not even the mammoths could cope with it but then from around 14,000 years ago there was a period of relative respite and here relative as an important word the conditions were still unbelievably harsh but the ice had lifted just enough to allow a few bands of Hardy hunters to return to Britain inside this box the oldest art ever found in Britain [Music] made 13,000 years ago it's tiny and unique its creator and Ice Age hunter it's a fragment of horse boon with an engraving of a horse edged into it but it's infinitely more than that the peers of the mean look like hackles that are raised in fear or excitement although it's on this sliver of bone the legs are suggested and their galloping legs everything about it is alive the horse couldn't be more active and more vibrant it's miraculous the horse's head was found here in a valley of caves near Sheffield and recent excavations have revealed that it wasn't the only treasure left behind by the Ice Age hunters in 2003 archaeologist pol ban found the only cave art ever discovered in Britain it was this panel where we found our major discovery figures on ceilings are very hard to understand because you don't know from which direction to look at them this is actually an engraved and bas-relief Ibis a water bird you can see the great beak the beak sweeping around there's a mouth of the eye they've engraved the top of the head here's the neck then this beautiful oval body which is probably natural that they have outlined it a little bit one of the most characteristic features of cave art all over Western Europe is this constant use of natural shapes in the rock and clearly that's what's been done here [Music] meticulous search and revealed traces of more engravings all of them created within just a few generations when the ice age briefly lifted [Music] they depict animals important to the people who came here some of them are not even meant to be seen you can see the old floor level here there's not much space between that and the ceiling they're crawling at this point so and with their little flickering lamps held in their hands it's very difficult for them to get this far into the cave thirteen thousand years ago someone was driven to venture into the darkest depths of this cave simply to make a drawing I think there are a series of long necked Birds but the important thing about this panel is that it is so difficult to reach and it's in the total darkness yeah what is the point of art if no one sees it well there's an important percentage of cave art all over Western Europe which is deliberately placed in these very hard to reach spots they're making them for something else something non-human to see maybe a goddess spirit and ancestor the forces of nature and I suppose they mean not have seen themselves as being quite as separate and different from animals as we do they may have seen these and themselves as all creatures that roamed the same habitat I think they were very much people of their environment of everything around them and I'm sure that they felt the animals where their kin if you like their brothers their sisters it's fantastic after fourteen thousand years to get a glimpse of the way at least one individual was thinking you know the to the initiative to crawl down here with alarm you know and make that an in life but it never to be seen again you know that's a moment in some individuals life [Music] just a few hundred years after the Creswell cave art the ice was back and with a vengeance written once again became an empty desolate frozen land the last wave of glacial conditions came around 13,000 years ago I tamed geologists call the Younger Dryas or more tellingly the big fries it's hard to imagine just how hostile this climate became in Scotland 13,000 years ago the ground was buried under a blanket of ice up to a kilometer thick [Music] Glacia sky of the landscape shaping the very mountains and the loss we see today [Music] for a siege expert Jim handsome it's a landscape that tells a story of colossal environmental power so if we were standing here at the very end of the Ice Age what would we be looking at eleven thousand years ago the glacier terminus the edge of the glacier would be at our feet the lake wouldn't be here and we'd be looking at a gradient of ice disappearing off into the North as the glacier melted back then water has unfounded into this Hollow and that's what the week of main teeth is so everything we can see here has been touched by the ice oh absolutely Isis major Mulder of the landscape that's one of the reasons why this is a classic place to see the the elemental effects of ice and what it can do to the landscape Britain was being sculpted on a geological scale and behind us is the glacier Great Basin that's now occupied by the lake and the glacier has bulldozed a whole series of mounds little Hills that mark at the edge of the the glacier we call them Marines so there's so much force that it's rippling the landscape exactly right exactly right a bit like standing on our loose carpet and the cap of rocks up in front of you right that's exactly the process so substantial force all around the leading edge of the glacier then there would be these dumps of material that have become hillocks and humps that's correct so there would have been a nose of of ice sitting to our yeah which is gone and it's left all the builders material that was on its nose that's correct that's correct the effect of the ice was astounding but when it finally melted around 11,000 years ago the power of ice was replaced by the power of water this is just extraordinary like you could you can be dropped down here and you would have no way of knowing what part of the world you are in it's so otherworldly it's like Jurassic Park tremendous nope could this did this river cut this Gorge no their ever far too small for the gods okay the color and misfit stream so when it comes to the in terms of the the last ice age what what has happened to create this well during the last ice age as the glaciers retreat the melt waters got to go somewhere has a lot of ice there's a lot of ice that's half a kilometer of ice very very close it can't go to the south because there's rising hills the camps he fails it can't go to the west so it comes in this direction streets with this gorge and that gives it great erosive power so the sheer elemental force of water coming down through here would have been tremendous it's like a Karcher high pressure who was it is on a massive scale eroding the valley it's hard to think of a more graphic illustration of the raw power of just rushing water see upon see afar we couldn't have been standing here at this time ten thousand years ago the final retreat of the ice ended the age of the Paleolithic the remote world of the red lady and the mammoths he hunted the icy world of the cave artists of Creswell crags ever since the ice peaked 18,000 years ago and New Britain had gradually begun to appear No as the ice melted the coast and the Western Isles of Scotland were taking on the forum we recognized today in East the Norwegian trains had begun to open into what would one day become the North Sea but despite the rise in sea levels 10,000 years ago in the South Britain remain firmly attached to the Continental mainland [Music] gradual warming allowed the first intrepid hunters to return to a new and very different land where frozen tundra was giving way to the first forests of birch and alder [Music] they brought a new culture new ways of surviving and a whole new era in our history this new warmer world with its different animals and plants presented the people who came here with a whole new set of challenges so much so that archaeologists were moved to give the spirit its own name the Mesolithic the middle storage it was to this period that I was particularly drawn when I was a student of archeology and it was to the islands off the coast of Scotland that I came as I was learning the skills of excavation no more than 20 years later new finds and Hebrides are giving us a unique insight into how people survived in this newly emerging land [Music] you've got some very finely worked Flint blades here look at those beautiful long blades and if you say it's been very delicate around the edge there yeah and that had been used as a barb or points or maybe the blade of the knife yes some of the pointed uses drill bits it's a it's the classic MS leg artifacts it's these tiny little items actually classify unfortunately thousands of years of human actors actually sir yes indeed [Music] Steve mittens excavations have uncovered an entire Mesolithic fishing camp from 9,000 years ago when we sieve the deposits very finally we find fish bones how are they catching the fish we do have one artifact that we found here which is a tip of an antler harpoon or little fish spear oh no it's made for me the tine of a red deer antler we've only got the lead the final tip of it we can see that had been worked and smoothed out so they're on a precious artifact the ice melted bands of intrepid hunters returned to the land and from that day to this our land has been continuously occupied they were still hunters they were still nomadic but they were more settled within the landscape a person might be born live and die in the same area and that's a different relationship to a place compared to the Paleolithic in the Mesolithic the Middle Stone Age what we're beginning to see is not just a continuity of people that leads all the way to us today it's also about the first people who you could see were born and bred British [Music] remarkably the remains of one of these people have survived one of a population of perhaps just a thousand or so who occupied Britain around 9,000 years ago and have come back to London's Natural History Museum to meet him this is the skull of cheddar man his is the oldest complete human skeleton ever found in Britain the rest of his bones are collected here in these white boxes he lived over 9,000 years ago which means that either he or his immediate ancestors were among the very first we colonizers of the British Isles after the last ice age I look at the skull and I can even begin to imagine his face what he looked like and it's a strange feeling unlike the red lady or the Cresswell artists this man didn't live in an icy world by the time he was alive the open tundra was giving way to forests of birch and older so instead of hunting mammoths and reindeer in the snow he hunted red deer in the wild wood you can tell from the condition of his teeth that he grew up enjoying a good diet but despite that still in his twenties this man died now look at this this ugly ragged critter on his skull was to the right of his nose that's the result of bone infection the infection may have followed an injury or it may have been disease that that started perhaps in his sinuses and spread but in any case it would have been debilitating it may have caused fever it may ultimately have caused his death so despite the fact there was plenty of meat around there was no guarantee of a long healthy life [Music] archaeologist Steve Millen is discovering just how sophisticated the lives of these Mesolithic hunters where it turns out that his call was only a small part of a much bigger picture on this island today you must have been hunted on another Island over here unlike Paleolithic hunters these people didn't follow hares over hundreds of miles but to call the immediate from the local environment they moved between a network of violence call : z or on z unto the south Ayla all had something different to offer [Music] but : z steve is discovering the remains of one of the most important resources of Mesolithic britain the shells of more than a third of a million hazelnuts what they may have been doing is gathering large quantities in autumn and then storing them as a food for the winter if you roast them and crack them you can grind them down to a paste and then it's quite easy things food nutritious food to carry away and to take away on that skill it almost sounds like a processing plant yeah yeah the scale the scale of activity here was just astonishing when we discovered it this shows that they weren't just you know living from day to days grabbing at in existence it was really carefully planned activity but hazelnuts were only part of the diet for these ancient hunters [Music] on the nearby island of or NZ does evidence that shellfish were consumed on a massive scale it's a remarkable Island because there's there's no less than five MS mythic shell mounds of shell middens on the island we're standing on one of them now and these are easy literally rubbish dumps some coastal foraging and you can see it in there yeah in the rabbit Barros you can see these shells are roading out by the edge of the rabbit burrow here every one of these shells was discarded by a Mesolithic hunter around 9,000 years ago this is the waste from the Mesolithic coastal foraging through these Olympic shells periwinkles dog Wilkes amongst all that there'd be fish bones aha we've got seal bones from within the middens all sorts of things [Music] yet another island was home to Red Deer a key source of meat skins and antler we're just flying over the rinser viola at the moment and the riddles in recent times of need to achieve the hunting for deer I think that's exactly what they were doing in the in the MS lithic so the tip that we've got from the various groups that they wanted the hazelnuts the rest of the vegetables the medicines steve's discoveries are revealing a whole new way of living a systematic exploitation of different resources available on different islands the people who lived here were moving season-by-season within a landscape they must have known intimately [Music] how much of the whole picture do you think you've glimpsed in your decades here I think we just got a small fraction at the moment and I'm hoping over the next couple of decades we'll get some more pieces in there maybe the big pieces like where the base camps are you know these aggregation sites I think we will find them eventually and get a real more complete picture of what that mezzo lithic lifestyle would have been like [Music] the world of Mesolithic Britain was characterized by small communities living very separate isolated lives it's best emitted but at any one time the Hall of Mesolithic Britain may have been populated by as few as five thousand people us as many as you'd find today in just a handful of London streets apart from the hunting party of an extended family they might never see another living soul and that must have shaped the way they saw themselves in their world from fragments of evidence it's possible to recreate something of the way these people lived much harder to understand is what they believed but there are some clues [Music] here at the British Museum that a relic experts believe is nothing less than a sign of Mesolithic religion [Music] the skull of a red deer that's been carefully worked by hand this is an astonishing object it's ten thousand years old and just the feeling you get from something of that age even before you touch it it's tangible and I suppose the thing you do notice right away at least these two holes you might think that they represent the eyes but they don't they are to take a hide strap from made from animal skin because this is to be worn as a headdress it's been suggested from time to time that this might have been born as part of a disguise but that seems highly unlikely apart from anything else this is heavy the stumps of the antlers would have snagged on branches just have made the work of hunting even more difficult well it seems much more likely that this is part of a rite a ritual a ceremony when the person wore this the became something else something more than a man if you imagine it being worn on the head along with maybe the full pelt of the animal by donning this and performing the ritual a transformation took place the person would would believe and be seemed to be becoming a Red Deer stag or even more interesting with some sort of hybrid part man part animal Mesolithic people may have felt themselves to be so much a part of nature living within it enveloped by it and dependent upon it not just in the practical everyday sense but in a profoundly magical and spiritual way as well but as we know nature can be a very cruel mistress at the beginning of the Mesolithic after the big freeze Britain was still firmly attached to mainland Europe but as sea levels continued to rise that connection was reduced to a narrow and marshy land bridge Britain was becoming an island but its fate was sealed by a sudden catastrophe that devastated its low-lying coastal plains and the communities that depended on them [Music] the coast of north east Scotland here at Mont Rules those evidence of the greatest natural catastrophe Britain has ever witnessed a force of nature that ripped through the fragile communities of Mesolithic Breton the event was discovered by geologist David Smith it's behind this mud and the mud has come from where it's come down through the tip above so if we clean this up you know you'll see the section we're all better behind the mud there should be a bank of continuous clay but here there's something else so what are we looking at there well we're looking at a layer of sand such that really fine stuff yeah it is as far as you are concerned sand that shouldn't be layer shouldn't be there not in that amount and that extent only one thing could have been responsible a cataclysmic wave that struck the northeast coast of Britain around 6100 BC one of the greatest tsunamis ever recorded on earth the Tigers house very quickly and the next thing we'd notice would be a slight wind coming from office offshore the next thing after that would be a noise a noise like an express train as you get closer and closer the waves would have been maybe as much as 10 meters high if you were down there and caught in it is there any surviving it could you could you let it take you and swim away from it no there is no way you could have survived it's a speed it's just so great anybody standing out on the mud flaps in at that time would well have been dismembered by the power of the wave it comes in so fast that we just tear people apart torn apart yes yes a giant landslide in Norway is thought to have sent the Greek wave charging towards Britain from the north [Music] it hit the coastline with such force that it continued 40 kilometers inland killing indiscriminately [Music] in a single moment the British landscape had been reshaped forever i 6100 bc britain was well on its way to becoming an island already Nauru possibly even tidal channels were cutting us off from the rest of continental Europe for what the great wave did was to seal our fate in the most dramatic way possible as those narrow sea channels were wrecked wide open [Music] here at the other end of Britain the people who made those footprints in these mud flats of South Wales where in all likelihood blissfully unaware of the Great Wave far less of the devastation that had caused in the east they were the unknowing survivors of perhaps the greatest natural disaster ever to strike our land and it strikes me that so much of the story of our early prehistory is about survival whether it be the Companions of the red lady of pavulon I'm hunting the mammoth or the artist who edged the image of a horse head into ribbon while the Ice Age waxed and waned or the people who faced and survived the tsunami 8,000 years ago the people living in the land that would become Britain we're living through a watershed in our story so those footprints aren't just traces of the people who made them they're also a snapshot of a moment the moment when this land became an island the people here had become different they've been made different and at the same time that been made are we but special as well next time my journey continues the last hands to touch these before mine for those of a Neolithic farmer five and a half thousand years ago as I discover a whole new age the age of ancestors nothing like this had ever been seen before in Britain when we left nature behind and set out on the greatest social experiment ever seen sure that chop wouldn't be put to what rained and grain the seismic revolution that came with farming [Music] [Music] [Music] you
Neil Oliver's documentaries are all good. There's a bunch of them on YouTube. I think I've seen them all.
Iām about 1/4 way through the first episode and it looks very good. Thanks for posting.
Did you watch the episodes on the crusades?
That looks interesting but I wonder how biased or unbiased the BBC is on that topic.
First, tell me why you think this is important and what it has to do with atheism.
And I am not scared of Stonehenge. I just don't want to waste my time.
I do not consider the BBC a source of factual information as it is known to present demonstrable myths as facts. So nope, not wasting my time, I can get more facts from video games than the BBC.