Churchill's People is series of 26 historical dramas produced by the BBC, based on Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. They were first broadcast on BBC1 in 1974 and 1975.
26 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
1974
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Episodes
Episode 1 • Dec 30, 1974
43 AD: Lucius is one of several Roman spies sent into the offshore island of Pritan, quietly to study the ground before plans for the invasion by the Emperor Claudius.
Episode 2 • Jan 06, 1975
400 AD: Among the splendours of his palace at Eboricum (York), Tiberius Claudius the Roman British governor the Province broods on what he believes to be the end of the civilised world The alarm and disunity of his political and military advisers influence his own indecision. The threat of barbaric invasion and its subsequent violent outbursts throughout the Empire are too much for the Imperial authority of Rome to contain. For Claudius the threat becomes a reality at a banquet to which a captive Saxon war leader is brought for diversion.
Episode 3 • Jan 13, 1975
654 AD: Two powerful adversaries face each other - Penda, pagan king of Mercia, and Oswy, Christian king of Northumbria.
Episode 4 • Jan 20, 1975
878 AD: King Alfred has suffered another defeat from the Danes and escapes through the Athelrey swamps to the safety of Odda's Hall. Disguised as a minstrel, Alfred enters the headquarters of the Viking invaders but his conversation with Chieftain Guthrum unsettles the Danes.
Episode 5 • Jan 27, 1975
1042: Godwin, Earl of Wessex, summons Edward from out of his exile in Normandy to wear the Crown of England. But the apparent security of Godwin's Anglo-Saxan policies is disrupted by Edward's partiality for a French connection and Rome-orientated religious tendencies.
Episode 6 • Feb 03, 1975
1066-1070: Forest laws bring about a climax between the Saxons and the Normans.
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