A Greek Odyssey With Bettany Hughes
A Greek Odyssey With Bettany Hughes is a TV show on Channel 5. The program has been available since 2020. A total of 13 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in January 2024.
Last broadcast:29/01/2024 at 04:00
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A Greek Odyssey With Bettany Hughes
Bettany Hughes goes Greek island-hopping to explore their history from the time of the Ancients to the present day. Bettany heads to Corfu, where she discovers that the island has a close connection to the UK. Her epic journey ends on Odysseus's home island, Ithaca.
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Bettany arrives in the Peloponnese, a peninsula that's home to some of ancient Greece's most legendary kings and vicious warriors.
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In Santorini, Bettany Hughes visits a Minoan city preserved in time by one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in history. Next port of call is Naxos, home of the god of wine and revelry, before she lands in Sifnos, where long-distance communications were mastered millennia before telegrams or telephones.