A six-part series in which Peter Snow looks at stories uncovered in a single copy of a newspaper from the past. 4: The True Domestick Intelligence, 23 September 1679. How a pathological fibber called Titus Oates managed to send the nation into a frenzy with his lie about a plot to convert Britain to Catholicism and why John Evelyn 's massive gardening encyclopedia, Elysium Britannicum , was left unpublished until last year. Plus a re-creation of a foot-race from Barnet to Highgate and a look at wine in Berkshire, where 1679 seems to have been a vintage year. ProducerAndrew Green