Britain's Biggest Dig

Ahead of the HS2 rail construction project, Britain's largest cemetery excavation unearths the forgotten stories of Georgian London's rich and poor--revealing how the city rose to become the heart of a global empire.

Anthropologist Professor Alice Roberts and historian Dr. Yasmin Khan uncover the history of two of Britain's greatest cities, exploring how London became the capital of a global empire and how Birmingham grew into "the workshop of the world."

Roberts and Khan uncover how working-class Victorians made Birmingham one of the most important industrial cities on the planet; the discoveries range from several mysterious skeleton markings to the rise of the real Peaky Blinders.