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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clive Anderson
Mary-Ann Ochota
Andra Heritage
Dan Chambers
John Cavanagh
Charles Poe
David Royle
Dan Gold
