Fortress Britain With Alice Roberts
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46:58The story of William the Conqueror's journey from invader to ruler of England through the physical reminders that remain. Alice gets her hands on a near thousand-year-old sword as she discovers who the Normans really were. Danielle gets some eleventh century battlefield experience. Onyeka learns how William's carefully cho...
47:00At her castle base, Alice discovers how Britain, shut out by America, was forced to go it alone and build a nuclear deterrent before facing its very own Chernobyl moment. Danielle visits eerie bomb bases and subterranean networks from where the country would have been run following a nuclear war, whilst Onyeka learns how a...
46:48The story of Britain' s preparation for a Nazi land invasion during WWII through the physical reminders that remain to this day.
46:55Professor Alice Roberts, Professor Danielle George and Dr Onyeka Nubia tell the story of Henry VIII's obsession with invasion from Catholic Europe through the physical reminders that remain to this day. At her base in Walmer Castle. Alice gets her hands on a vast hoard of a Tudor coins and a five- hundred-year-old jousting...