The Celts

The Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to rise from anonymity. This program looks at who the Celts were, where they came from and...

The heyday of the Celts was the La Tene era. It was tribal, and women were often the leaders: warriors, bards, druids, artists and craftsmen. Their li...

This program looks at the pagan religion, Druidism, which underpinned early Celtic society and is still practiced today.

The slow collapse of the Roman Empire saw the arrival of new cultures which threatened the Celts. The program claims that the British king, Vortigern,...

From the 8th century onwards the Celts were hammered by invasions by the Vikings and then the Normans. Following the Reformation in the 16th century,...

This program examines the emergence, history, meaning and threats to the Celtic identity. Today the struggle to define an identity continues.