The Silk Road

Rating:3.0 of 5Total number of episodes:3Last broadcast:19/02/2017 at 09:30
February 2017
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Season 1 Episode 3

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In the final episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis continues his journey west in Iran. The first BBC documentary to be granted entry for nearly a decade, Sam begins in the legendary city of ...
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Season 1 Episode 2

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In the second episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis travels west to central Asia, a part of the Silk Road often overlooked and yet the place of major innovations, big historical characters a...
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Season 1 Episode 1

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In the first episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis starts in Venice and explores how its Renaissance architecture and art has been shaped by the east and by thousands of exchanges along the ...
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