Season 1

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  8.1/1029 votes

  Age of Ice

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2011

  Neil Oliver travels back to ice age Britain as he begins the epic story of the evolution of the land and its occupants over thousands of years of ancient history. In this episode he describes a struggle for survival in a brutal world of climate change and environmental catastrophe.

  Director: Arif Nurmohamed

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.1/1022 votes

  Age of Ancestors

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/2011

  Neil Oliver continues the story of how today's Britain and its people were forged over thousands of years of ancient history. It's 4,000 BC and the first farmers arrive from Europe, with seismic consequences for the local hunter-gatherers.

  Director: Jeff Wilkinson

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.2/1020 votes

  Age of Cosmology

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2011

  Neil Oliver continues his journey through the world of Ancient Britain as he encounters an age of cosmological priests and some of the greatest monuments of the Stone Age, including Stonehenge itself. This is a time of elite travellers, who were inventing the very idea of Heaven itself.

  Director: Simon Winchcombe

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.0/1021 votes

  Age of Bronze

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/2/2011

  Neil Oliver continues his epic tour of Britain's most distant past with the arrival of metals and the social revolution that ushered in a new age of social mobility, international trade, and village life.

  Director: Dick Taylor

  Writer: Unknown