Season 1958

The city of Taxila was the capital of Alexander the Great's Indian Empire. It lies among the foothills of the Himalayas in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and was one of the great meeting places of East and West in the ancient world.

25.000 years ago Stone Age man hunted the hairy-coated mammoth through the cold bleak valleys of Central Europe. Glyn Daniel and Dr. C. B. M. McBurney discuss the excavations at Dolni Vestonice, in Czechoslovakia, which throw a vivid light on the home life, the hunting skills and the beliefs of these hunters.

Deep in the African bush lie the great stone ruins of Zimbabwe, once thought to be the source of King Solomon's gold. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, who recently went there for the first time, discusses this mysterious site, which has aroused so much controversy, speculation, and legend.

Between the conversion of St. Patrick and the coming of the Vikings, early Christian Ireland had its Golden Age. Liam and Maire de Paor describe the lives and work of the saints and scholars, the goldsmiths, illuminators and stone carvers who made their country the wonder of the Western world during the Dark Ages.