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Series exploring the Celts. The first part looks at the origins of the ancient civilisation in the Alps of central Europe and the moment of first contact with the Romans.
Anthropologist Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Neil Oliver go in search of the Celts - one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In Britain and Ireland we are never far from our Celtic past, but in this series Neil and Alice travel much further afield, discovering the origins and beliefs of these Iron Age people in artefacts and human remains right across Europe, from Turkey to Portugal. What emerges is not a wild people on the western fringes of Europe, but a highly sophisticated tribal culture that influenced vast areas of the ancient world - and even Rome.
Rich with vivid drama reconstruction, we recreate this pivotal time and meet some of our most famous ancient leaders - from Queen Boudicca to Julius Caesar - and relive the battles they fought for the heart and soul of Europe. Alice and Neil discover that these key battles between the Celts and the Romans over the best part of 500 years constituted a fight for two very different forms of civilisation - a fight that came to define the world we live in today.
In the first episode, we see the origins of the Celts in the Alps of central Europe and relive the moment of first contact with the Romans in a pitched battle just north of Rome - a battle that the Celts won and that left the imperial city devastated.
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Hochdorf
Duration: 02:14
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First Celts
Duration: 01:29
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To Rome!
Duration: 01:45
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Alice Roberts |
Presenter | Neil Oliver |
Executive Producer | Cameron Balbirnie |
Producer | Jeremy Hall |
Director | Jeremy Hall |
Broadcasts
- Mon 5 Oct 2015 21:00
- Tue 6 Oct 2015 23:45±«Óãtv Two except Northern Ireland & Scotland
- Wed 7 Oct 2015 00:15±«Óãtv Two Scotland
- Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:45±«Óãtv Two except Scotland
- Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:15±«Óãtv Two Scotland
- Wed 19 Apr 2017 21:00
- Thu 20 Apr 2017 01:00
- Tue 1 May 2018 22:00
- Wed 2 Jan 2019 19:00
- Thu 3 Jan 2019 03:00
- Sat 9 Oct 2021 19:10
- Sun 10 Oct 2021 02:20
- Mon 19 Sep 2022 01:05
- Sat 14 Oct 2023 20:00
- Wed 18 Oct 2023 02:10
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