Season 1955

Dr. J. Weiner, of the Department of Anatomy at Oxford University, and Dr. K. Oakley, of the British Museum of Natural History, tell the story of the finding of the Piltdown remains and show Glyn Daniel how one of the most remarkable hoaxes in scientific history was eventually exposed.

John Evans discusses with Glyn Daniel the great stone temples of Malta, and Instructor Captain H. S. Gracie, R.N., suggests an answer to the problem of the prehistoric Maltese cart-tracks.

With the help of television outside broadcast cameras Professor Stuart Piggott and Richard Atkinson of Edinburgh University show Glyn Daniel the results of their excavation of the West Kennet Long Barrow, one of the largest and best-known prehistoric burial mounds in Britain.

Glyn Daniel tells the story of one of the most mysterious of the peoples of the ancient world and illustrates their achievements with film specially shot in Italy.