Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters

Series 1 Episode 1
First Broadcast: 8.15PM Sat 26 November 2011

Featuring dramatic reconstructions, the opening programme examines our fascination with and terror of dead bodies.

People in the past believed that even in death a body retained some vital force, and that the dead could rise from the grave to cause havoc among the living. Why did they believe this? What powers did they believe the dead had? And what did they do about it?

Tony's journey takes him on a fascinating and sometimes humorous tour of some of the darkest recesses of the ancient mind, and brings him face to face with a plague-breathing zombie, a dead body that seems alive three weeks after it died, and the English monarchs who ate the bodies of their subjects.

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    1. Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters Series 1 Episode 1 The Undead

      Featuring dramatic reconstructions, the opening programme examines our fascination with and terror of dead bodies.

      • Contains gory reconstructions
      • This episode has subtitles available.
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    2. Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters Series 1 Episode 2 Evil Spirits

      Imagine a world full of demons who could enter your body and take control of it. A world populated by invisible spirits…

      • Contains re-enactments of exorcisms
      • This episode has subtitles available.
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    3. Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters Series 1 Episode 3 Disease

      Instead of blaming bacteria, viruses or failing organs, our ancestors blamed disease and illness on demons, sprites and…

      • This episode has subtitles available.
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