Mystic Britain

Comedian Clive Anderson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota light-heartedly explore superstition and magic in the Middle Ages, when many Britons believed witches and devils walked the earth.

Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota visit the `Whispering Knights' of the Cotswolds, and some ancient stones that, according to legend, are a monarch and courtiers petrified by a witch thousands of years ago.

Explore the history and mystical powers of Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Empire's most impressive British legacy. Hosted by comedian Clive Anderson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota.

Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota humorously unravel Yorkshire's `living dead': human remains from the Middle Ages, when it was believed zombies walked England's green and pleasant land.

The chance discovery of a gold-filled Anglo-Saxon royal tomb at Prittlewell, Essex, went global. Comedian Clive Anderson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota ask who this ancient royal was.

Mummification is usually associated with early Egyptians or Peruvians, but as Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota discover, the practice had reached Britain during the prehistoric Bronze Age.