Digging for Britain

Sky History 2

7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Friday 4 October

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Alice Roberts finds out about discoveries that shed light on the Tudor Age, visiting excavations at Shakespeare's first theatre in London's Shoreditch and at his last home in Stratford-upon-Avon, where clues reveal his economical use of money. In Wales, she meets a team of archaeologists learning about the realities of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, while the history of a forgotten royal palace is uncovered on the banks of the Thames