Name: Mystic Britain
Released: 2019-04-30T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Clive Anderson, Mary-Ann Ochota

TV Show · Documentary · History

Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota's journey through Britain's strange and unusual past, exploring everything from the unsettling to the simply surprising, from zombies and mummification to witchcraft.

2019 · 47m

Starring Clive Anderson, Mary-Ann Ochota

EPISODE 1

Witches and Demons

Comedian Clive Anderson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota light-heartedly explore superstition and magic in the Middle Ages, when many Britons believed witches and devils walked the earth.

44 min
EPISODE 2

The Rollright Witch

Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota visit the `Whispering Knights' of the Cotswolds, and some ancient stones that, according to legend, are a monarch and courtiers petrified by a witch thousands of years ago.

47 min
EPISODE 3

Hadrian's Mystic Wall

Explore the history and mystical powers of Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Empire's most impressive British legacy. Hosted by comedian Clive Anderson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota.

47 min
EPISODE 4

The Revenants

Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota humorously unravel Yorkshire's `living dead': human remains from the Middle Ages, when it was believed zombies walked England's green and pleasant land.

47 min
EPISODE 5

The Pagan Prince

The chance discovery of a gold-filled Anglo-Saxon royal tomb at Prittlewell, Essex, went global. Comedian Clive Anderson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota ask who this ancient royal was.

47 min
EPISODE 6

Mummies

Mummification is usually associated with early Egyptians or Peruvians, but as Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota discover, the practice had reached Britain during the prehistoric Bronze Age.

47 min