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The Man Who Discovered Britain

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Professor Barry Cunliffe tells the story of Pytheas the Greek, the first literate man ever to visit the British Isles. He arrived 300 years before Julius Caesar and wrote an account of his voyage, On the Ocean. But his achievement was trashed by his contemporaries and he was dismissed as a liar and a fraud. Why? Producer John Byrne

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Professor Barry Cunliffe
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Julius Caesar
Producer:
John Byrne

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