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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Man with the Golden Shoes

    • May 14, 1987
    • BBC One

    Frank Delaney traces Celtic origins by following a trail of archaeological finds across Europe, from salt mines in Austria to burial mounds in Germany and England.

  • S01E02 The Birth of Nations

    • May 21, 1987
    • BBC One

    Frank Delaney investigates the origins and evolution of the four remaining Celtic homelands - Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Brittany.

  • S01E03 A Pagan Trinity

    • May 28, 1987
    • BBC One

    Frank Delaney takes a look at how pagan and Christian rites amalgamated when the missionaries arrived.

  • S01E04 The Open-Ended Curve

    • June 4, 1987
    • BBC One

  • S01E05 The Final Conflict

    • June 11, 1987
    • BBC One

    An exploration of language as part of identity, including attempts to destroy Celtic languages and their recent renaissance, especially Welsh and Breton.

  • S01E06 The Legacy

    • June 18, 1987
    • BBC One

    Frank Delaney argues that the Celts bequeathed to European civilisation not only glorious art but also a way of thinking, a philosophy of life and a passion for freedom.

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