Episode list

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

Just a few yards from a busy road in England lie the Rollright Stones, a group of ancient monuments older than Stonehenge and just as mysterious. For about 6,000 years, the origins and purpose of the three groups of stones have been shrouded in myth. Follow hosts Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota as they attempt to uncover the secrets of these mystic treasures.

A look at the Roman Empire's most impressive legacy in Britain: Hadrian's Wall, a massive physical structure thought to have magical powers.

In 1963, archaeologists discovered a pit full of human bones in a preserved medieval village in Yorkshire. Some were dismembered, some were burnt, and all were buried here for a specific reason. Now, our hosts dig through old records and use the latest forensic technology to determine if these corpses were killed in battle, were the result of human sacrifice or cannibalism, or were mutilated to stop them from coming back from the dead.

It was supposed to be a routine excavation of a small traffic island in Essex, but it turned into a remarkable archaeological find. The 2003 discovery of an ancient pagan burial chamber revealed a treasure trove of artifacts from the Dark Ages and one shocker: gold foil crosses that predate the arrival of Christianity to the region by nearly 20 years. Was this the tomb of a trailblazer for the religion that would dominate Britain for the next 1,400 years? And if so, what did it mean for the Anglo-Saxon gods that dominated the landscape?

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.

When a mass grave at Britain's biggest Iron Age hill fort reveals evidence of ritual human sacrifice, comedian and barrister Clive Anderson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota confront a murder mystery.

Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota take a trip to Star Carr, North Yorkshire, where the discovery of a skull headdress begins a mind-expanding journey into the rites and rituals of the ancient past.

Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota explore Britain's greatest mystic monument, Stonehenge, in an attempt to finally answer the ultimate question: what's the point?