This is the story of England’s greatest spy who pioneered covert espionage techniques to foil a terror plot to murder Elizabeth I, and to engineer the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
In a gripping day-by-day account of the action, using dramatised scenes and location interviews with top historians, we reveal the remarkable events across eight weeks in 1586, when the danger was at its height.
Never has there been a figure so magnetic as King Arthur. The age in which this mysterious King supposedly lived is poorly documented, so in the absence of hard proof, history and fantasy become intertwined. What is myth and what is reality?
The popular view is that Camelot was the centre of King Arthur's realm, where his Knights of the Round Table enforced justice and fairness. But did this mystical court ever actually exist?
It is impossible to think of King Arthur without his chief advisor and wizard, Merlin. Initially it would appear that Merlin belongs completely in the land of myth however there is more evidence to support the existence of Merlin than of Arthur.
