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Episode 1

50 min

Episode 2

50 min

Special: The Age of Charles II

50 min

Episode 4

50 min

Episode 5

60 min

The Battle for Berlin

55 min

Aspects of War

50 min

Elements of Justice

50 min

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Season 4 · Episode 9 · Dec 5, 1985

Film 1: As the world waits for Halley's Comet, a recently discovered diary written by a 17th-century merchant from Rye in Sussex reveals the feelings of a man caught up in a scientific revolution, when the new discipline of astronomy shouldered aside the age-old belief in astrology. Author Aubrey Burl, authority on stone circles, outlines new theories which suggest that the ancient peoples of Britain used the world's most famous circle as a lunar as well as a solar observatory. Film 2: A look back at events earlier this year when Stonehenge and the hill fort at Maiden Castle were at the centre of English Heritage's controversial plans to preserve our past - a controversy that still rages over who digs what and where, that has split the usually placid world of archaeology.

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Season 4 · Episode 9 · Dec 5, 1985

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