Showing top 3 upcoming show times. Show times are sorted in increasing order of start time.

1. Tue 12:00 AM, 21 Jan 2025 on BBC Four HD channel

   1/13. From the British Museum's 1972 Tutankhamun exhibition, Cyril Aldred introduces a programme on the role of the pharaoh, one of the most distinctive aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation. [S]

2. Tue 12:20 AM, 21 Jan 2025 on BBC Four HD channel

   2/13. Cyril Aldred explores how all the striking achievements of the ancient Egyptians were based upon the farming of the narrow zone of fertile land along the banks of the Nile. [S]

3. Tue 12:40 AM, 21 Jan 2025 on BBC Four HD channel

   3/13. Cyril Aldred explores how the 1954 discovery of the remains of the royal ship of Cheops proved that a nation which was built round the Nile had to be a nation of sailors. [S]