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Border Country: The Story of Britain's Lost Middleland

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Border Country: The Story of Britain's Lost Middleland: Episode 2

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BBC Two - Border Country: The Story of Britain's Lost Middleland, Episode 2

Rory Stewart tells the story of how Britain was torn in two, into England and Scotland.

Historian Rory Stewart explains how Hadrian's Wall left a scar across Britain. A thousand years after the Romans left, the island split once again, into England and Scotland.

Hadrian's Wall cut a deep scar across Britain that would never be forgotten. A thousand years after the Romans left, the island split once again, near the line of the wall, into the Kingdoms of England and Scotland. 

Historian and MP Rory Stewart tells the story of how Britain was torn in two. The border country dividing Britain's lost Middleland became a zone of anarchy, as violent as border areas in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Factual: History

Two-part series exploring the border country created by the building of Hadrian's Wall.

Two-part series which explores the extraordinary landscape, oral history and archaeology of the border country created by the building of Hadrian's Wall.

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