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  • Premiered: Oct 1978
  • Episodes: 10
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC One
  • Unknown
  • Documentary

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Season 2
2x1
The Man with the Golden Shoes
Episode overview
Air date
May 14, 1987
Frank Delaney traces Celtic origins by following a trail of archaeological finds across Europe, from salt mines in Austria to burial mounds in Germany and England.
2x2
The Birth of Nations
Episode overview
Air date
May 21, 1987
Frank Delaney investigates the origins and evolution of the four remaining Celtic homelands - Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Brittany.
2x3
A Pagan Trinity
Episode overview
Air date
May 28, 1987
Frank Delaney takes a look at how pagan and Christian rites amalgamated when the missionaries arrived.
2x4
The Open-Ended Curve
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 04, 1987
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2x5
The Final Conflict
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 11, 1987
An exploration of language as part of identity, including attempts to destroy Celtic languages and their recent renaissance, especially Welsh and Breton.
2x6 Show finale
The Legacy
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 18, 1987
Frank Delaney argues that the Celts bequeathed to European civilisation not only glorious art but also a way of thinking, a philosophy of life and a passion for freedom.

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