Border Country: The Story of Britain's Lost Middleland

BBC Four HD

11:55 PM to 12:55 AM

Tuesday 3 March

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For historian Rory Stewart, the building of Hadrian's Wall in the second century was the single most important event in Britain's history. In the first of a two-part documentary, the MP for Penrith and the Border explores the landscape, oral history and archaeology of the region the wall runs through, examines the impact of Rome's occupation and departure, and reveals how the kingdom of Northumbria was born