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BC: The Archaeology of the Bible Lands

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on BBC Two England

Written and presented by Magnus Magnusson 1: In the Beginning
' In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth ' - so begins the best-known book of the Western world; best-known, but perhaps not nowadays the best-understood.
What is the Bible? How did it come to be written? To what historical events does it truly relate? Tonight MAGNUS MAGNUSSON begins his 12-part investigation with a search into remotest antiquity-contrasting the first eight chapters of Genesis - the stories of Adam, the Garden of Eden, Noah and the Flood - with our latest knowledge about the birth of man and of civilisation...
Bible reader Eric Porter
Film cameramen PETER HALL and JOHN HOOPER
Film editor DICK ALLEN Executive producer DAVID COLLISON
Producers PAUL JORDAN and ANTONIA BENEDEK
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Presented By:
Magnus Magnusson
Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Reader:
Eric Porter
Unknown:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
John Hooper
Editor:
Dick Allen
Producer:
David Collison
Producers:
Paul Jordan
Source: Radio Times

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