The seventh of ten films presenting a personal view of the European countryside.
The Gardens of Atlantis?
The island of Crete is a riot of colour when the spring flowers bloom, but in 1500BC it lay beneath a choking blanket of dust when the nearby island of Santorini blew its top and devastated the Minoan civilisation. Could Crete be the lost island of Atlantis and do its plants provide any evidence to support this theory?
Film editor JOHN BILLINGHAM
Producer MIKE WEATHERLEY
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