The programmes

This series of four Channel 4 programmes looks at the origins, history and traces today of pagan beliefs and practices.

Looks back to a time before sex was taboo, when humans saw themselves as an integral part of the natural world.

We still can’t believe our eyes, even though we know it’s a trick. But for pagans, magicians were the consultants of their day.

Were the pagans of the British Isles really barbarians or was that just Roman propaganda?

Why did pagan peoples build monuments? Were they simply burial places or were communities staking their claim to the land?