A Greek Odyssey With Bettany Hughes

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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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Series 1
Bettany Hughes visits a Minoan city preserved in time.
Bettany is shown shipwrecks, sunk thousands of years ago.
Bettany arrives in the Peloponnese, a peninsula that's home to some of ancient Greece's most legendary kings and vicious warriors.
On Ikaria, Bettany gets a lesson in honey history.
Bettany makes it to Crete, just before a storm does.
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