Saturday 19 July 2008

Until 8,000 years ago, Britain wasn't an island but just another part of continental Europe. But, in a timely reminder from prehistory, our ancestors were driven off their land after major climate change. The ice melted and the seas rose, shrinking the land that joined us to the Netherlands and Denmark. Tony Robinson pieces together the story of the drowned world, far bigger than England is today, lost when the North Sea and the English Channel were formed in a huge, 10,000-year flood.