Omar Sharif tells how the construction of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, a Wonder of the Ancient World, would have appeared to those who built it.
First shown on BBC1 Nile: Crocodiles and Kings - Friday BBC2 at 9pm (9.30pm in Wales - not digital)
With Kirsty Lang.
Followed by Weather
6/10
Irma Kurtz gets a flavour of modem-day Athens and the Isle of Aegina with local writers.
Francis Wheen and Timandra Harkness guest on the puzzle game.
ThNew series 1/3. Simon Schama introduces the first of three films taking great historians of the past into the present. The first subject is Thomas Macaulay , played by Samuel West , who delivers his History of England focusing on the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion. (AD)
2/6
Clive Anderson and guests discuss which popular book might have won the Booker Prize in 1954.
An examination of the evacuation from English, French and German perspectives.
