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Season 1

  • S01E01 King Arthur's Britain

    • September 6, 2004
    • Channel 4

    Francis Pryor reveals that the Roman invasion of Britain was not a brutal suppression of indigenous culture but a mutually beneficial experience that the Britons may have actually instigated.

  • S01E02 The Not So Dark Ages

    • September 13, 2004
    • Channel 4

    Francis Pryor sheds light on the so-called 'Dark Ages' and finds a world inhabited by Christianised, literate Britons.

  • S01E03 The Invasion That Never Was

    • September 20, 2004
    • Channel 4

    Francis focuses his attention on the Anglo-Saxon invasion and argues that the huge political changes that took place in Britain at the time were caused by a shifting of allegiances within this country rather than a violent invasion from elsewhere.