Dan Jones

The romantic appearance of castles across Britain belies their turbulent history as their walls are littered with the secrets of battles, sieges, intrigue and murder.  Presented by Dan Jones, this brand new 6 part series, brings you behind the scenes of Britain's greatest castles and with dramatic stories and insightful interviews unravels the tales of the iconic fortifications and strongholds...

Historians Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb join forces with engineer Rob Bell to reconstruct the story of the Great Fire of London. They explore what happened in real time, hour by hour and street by street, as the fire blazed across London.

London is one of the largest and most successful cities on earth, yet 2000 years ago it was an uninhabited swamp. Presenters tell the glorious, and sometimes gory, story of the city's meteoric rise to power: how it faced daring invasions, catastrophic fires and deadly plague and how it grew from a small Roman trading post, to the capital of the British Empire and ultimately to the city we know.