A series of six programmes giving a view of man and his expanding society seen in the archaeological landscape of the South.

For the greater part of its 400-years occupation of Britain the Roman Empire brought peace, stable government, and for many of the British themselves an un-dreamed-of prosperity.
Large towns like Winchester, Chichester, Bath, were served by great roads, bringing merchants with slaves and luxury goods, the latest fashions, as well as life's necessities. There was running water, public baths, theatres, temples, grandiose town halls.
Britain was apparently well-started on the long road to civilisation.
Presented by Prof Barry Cunliffe from Verulamium, St Albans
with Dr John Peter Wild, Dr Calvin Wells, Dr Anne Ross
(BBC South)
(Book 80p: see page 47)