Secrets from the Sky

This time their investigations take Bettany and Ben to the windswept cliffs of the Cornish coast and a castle at the heart of King Arthur's legend. Tintagel is said to be the place where Arthur was conceived but in amongst the tales of magicians, dragons and swords in the stone, is there any trut...

Old Sarum, meaning `Old Salisbury' is the ancient city that should have evolved into Salisbury but instead it was abandoned and the brand new city of Salisbury was built from scratch two miles away. Why did this happen?

Featuring Stonehenge, probably our most iconic and mysterious monument, but can their bird's eye view of these haunting stones shed new light on what it was built for?

Maiden Castle dominates the landscape outside Dorchester. It's the most awe-inspiring ancient fortification in the UK but all the evidence points to the Romans making light work of occupying it. How do you conquer a seemingly impenetrable fortress?

Bettany and Ben are at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk to investigate Britain's very own Valley of the Kings - a mysterious landscape of royal Saxon burials that includes the greatest discovery of treasure ever made in this country.

Bettany Hughes and co-presenter Ben Robinson head to Scotland where they discover that the Romans did not stop their march north at Hadrian's Wall, but pushed deep into Scotland to build the most heavily fortified border in the whole Empire.