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Arundel Castle |
9th Dec 2016 |
7 years ago |
20:00 - 21:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 6 - "Arundel Castle" History series. Dan Jones visits the heart of the English countryside to explore Arundel Castle and the dramatic history of the Earls of Arundel.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Lancaster Castle |
2nd Dec 2016 |
7 years ago |
20:00 - 21:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 5 - "Lancaster Castle" History series. Dan Jones visits Lancaster Castle to explore its grisly history of crime and punishment, including the infamous Lancashire Witches trials and the martyrdom of the Jesuit priest Saint Edmund Arrowsmith.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Leeds Castle |
25th Nov 2016 |
7 years ago |
20:00 - 21:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 4 - "Leeds Castle" History series. With the aid of dramatic reconstruction, Dan Jones explores the 900-year history of the beautiful Leeds Castle in Kent, from its origins as a royal Saxon family's manor and Norman stronghold to the private property of six medieval queens, a Tudor palace, a Jacobean country house, a Georgian mansion and an elegant 20th-century retreat for the rich and famous.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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York |
18th Nov 2016 |
8 years ago |
20:00 - 21:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 3 - "York" Part-dramatised history series. In medieval England, the North was ruled from York. Dan Jones explores the history of its castle, from the Viking Jorvik and the Normans, through the dark days of the anti-Jewish pogrom and the imprisonment of the Knights Templar, to one of its most colourful inmates - the legendary highwayman Dick Turpin.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Cardiff Castle |
4th Nov 2016 |
8 years ago |
20:00 - 21:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 2 - "Cardiff Castle" Dan Jones explores the history of the Welsh capital's landmark, Cardiff Castle, and discovers more about the various incarnations over the centuries.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Edinburgh Castle |
28th Oct 2016 |
8 years ago |
19:00 - 20:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 1 - "Edinburgh Castle" Edinburgh's handsome hilltop bastion is Scotland's most popular paid tourist attraction, but it also packs some formidable defences.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Carrickfergus |
5th Aug 2015 |
9 years ago |
19:00 - 20:00 |
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Season 1, Episode 6 - "Carrickfergus" Dan Jones explores the history of Carrickfergus Castle in Co Antrim, one of the most ancient castles in Northern Ireland and a stronghold key to understanding the tempestuous relationship between Britain and Ireland. Dan travels to Rathlin island, where he reveals how hundreds of women and children were massacred in the name of Elizabeth I, and visits the tomb of former governor Arthur Chichester, who began a new colonisation strategy using scorched earth tactics and laid waste to much of the land surrounding the town.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#5 |
Stirling Castle |
1st May 2015 |
9 years ago |
19:00 - 20:00 |
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Season 1, Episode 5 - "Stirling Castle" Perched high on a volcanic crag overlooking the River Forth, Stirling has long been one of the most strategically important castles in Britain. Guarding the gateway to the Highlands, its battle-scarred walls have witnessed savagery and chivalry, intrigue, alchemy, adultery and murder. With the aid of location filming, aerial shots and dramatic reconstructions, Dan Jones examines the history of this stronghold and relates the stories of some of the powerful characters who have owned it over the centuries.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#4 |
Caernarfon |
24th Apr 2015 |
9 years ago |
19:00 - 20:00 |
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Season 1, Episode 4 - "Caernarfon" Dan Jones heads to Gwynedd to explore the history of Caernarfon Castle, the building of which began in 1283 on the orders of Edward I. He demonstrates how the castle's vast stone walls and strategically designed towers repelled all enemies, even the Welsh national hero Owain Glyndwr, earning itself a truly forbidding reputation, but its military importance faded at the end of the 15th century when Henry Tudor - a Welshman - made his way on to the English throne.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#3 |
Warwick Castle |
17th Apr 2015 |
9 years ago |
19:00 - 20:00 |
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Season 1, Episode 3 - "Warwick Castle" Dan Jones explores the history of Warwick Castle, which started as a motte and bailey fort established by William the Conqueror in 1068 and was transformed into a stone fortress two centuries later by the Beauchamp family. He examines the role Guy Beauchamp played in the kidnapping and murder of one of Edward II's closest allies and descends into the castle's claustrophobic dungeon.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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The Tower of London |
10th Apr 2015 |
9 years ago |
19:00 - 20:00 |
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Season 1, Episode 2 - "The Tower of London" Dan Jones explores the turbulent history of the Tower of London, which is one of Britain's most famous buildings and has been a military fortress, a palace, a royal mint, a prison, a zoo and a place of execution. He reveals how one king's obsession with money led to the Tower becoming the focus of the worst Jewish massacre the country had ever seen and explains how a mob of disgruntled peasants managed to break through its defences as they sought bloody revenge for taxes they could no longer put up with.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#18 |
TBA |
4th Apr 2015 |
9 years ago |
02:00 - 03:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 18 - "TBA" No Summary Available...
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#16 |
TBA |
4th Apr 2015 |
9 years ago |
02:00 - 03:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 16 - "TBA" No Summary Available...
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#17 |
Cold War Checkmate, Radioactive Scout, S... |
4th Apr 2015 |
9 years ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 17 - "Cold War Checkmate, Radioactive Scout, Southwest Outbreak" Host Don Wildman investigates the badge that inspired an ambitious teen to undertake a perilous nuclear experiment, a chess set used in an unparalleled match of Cold War wits, and the eerie animal specimens that once spread the fear of death across the southwestern United States.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Cold War Checkmate, Radioactive Scout, S... |
4th Apr 2015 |
9 years ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 15 - "Cold War Checkmate, Radioactive Scout, Southwest Outbreak" Host Don Wildman investigates the badge that inspired an ambitious teen to undertake a perilous nuclear experiment, a chess set used in an unparalleled match of Cold War wits, and the eerie animal specimens that once spread the fear of death across the southwestern United States.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Dover Castle |
3rd Apr 2015 |
9 years ago |
19:00 - 20:00 |
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Season 1, Episode 1 - "Dover Castle" Historian Dan Jones explores the turbulent past of six of Britain's most famous strongholds, beginning by heading to the south-east of England to visit Dover Castle. He reveals that Henry II ordered its construction not only as a statement of royal power, but also out of guilt for the murder of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170. Dan discovers how a vast network of tunnels was used to defend the castle, including underground barracks built during the Napoleonic Wars and a nuclear bunker created during the Cold War.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Season 2 |
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#13 |
Battle to Cross the Channel; Royal Match... |
28th Mar 2015 |
9 years ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 13 - "Battle to Cross the Channel; Royal Matchmaker; Boettcher Kidnapping" An aviator's beautiful French castle; an opulent English retreat; a secluded Colorado estate.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Battle to Cross the Channel; Royal Match... |
28th Mar 2015 |
9 years ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 14 - "Battle to Cross the Channel; Royal Matchmaker; Boettcher Kidnapping" An aviator's beautiful French castle; an opulent English retreat; a secluded Colorado estate.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#12 |
Making of an Artist, Secret Sonar, Fairy... |
21st Mar 2015 |
9 years ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 12 - "Making of an Artist, Secret Sonar, Fairy Flag" A chateau in southwestern France is home to an ailing boy who seeks artistic acceptance; a Canadian castle serves as a secret location for a wartime project; and a Scottish stronghold is at the heart of a fabled love story.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#11 |
Irish Heist, Dickens Affair, Prince of P... |
14th Mar 2015 |
9 years ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 11 - "Irish Heist, Dickens Affair, Prince of Porcelain" An Irish manor is ransacked in one of the largest art heists the world has ever seen; a French chateau plays host to the illicit affair of a literary superstar; and a hilltop German castle is at the center of a tale of fraud.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#10 |
The Black Dinner; Seward Attack; Danesfi... |
7th Mar 2015 |
9 years ago |
02:00 - 03:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 10 - "The Black Dinner; Seward Attack; Danesfield House" A 15th-century power struggle climaxed at a giant fortress in Scotland; an Italian villa; upstate New York mansion.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#9 |
Martin Luther Kidnapping; Witches of Bel... |
28th Feb 2015 |
9 years ago |
02:00 - 03:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 9 - "Martin Luther Kidnapping; Witches of Belvoir; Secret Queen" A looming German castle; a palatial British estate; French chateau.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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Book Thief; Bigamist Duchess; Patent-ly ... |
21st Feb 2015 |
9 years ago |
02:00 - 03:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 8 - "Book Thief; Bigamist Duchess; Patent-ly Absurd" Hohenburg Abbey; Thoresby Hall in central England; Seelye Mansion in Kansas.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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#7 |
Book Chest; Miracle on Anne Greene; Hemi... |
14th Feb 2015 |
9 years ago |
02:00 - 03:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 7 - "Book Chest; Miracle on Anne Greene; Hemingway's Last Cent" Holland's Loevestein Castle; Oxford Castle; tropical retreat in Key West.
Type: Documentary |
Network: Channel 5 |
Status: Ended |
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