Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues

BBC Four

11:30 PM to 12:30 AM

Tuesday 22 October

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Historian Sam Willis explores the golden age of piracy during the early 18th century, when Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Calico Jack and others were in operation on the high seas. He charts the devastating impact they had during an era of colonial expansion and how they became the most wanted outlaws in the world by plundering the vast network of maritime trade, they became the most wanted outlaws in the world