ANCIENT 
GREECE
BY TRAIN
ROMAN EMPIRE 
BY TRAIN
GENRE
History & Mystery
DURATION
5 x 60’
PRODUCER
Spark Media
BROADCASTER
Channel 4
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
Professor Alice Roberts takes to the 
railways of Greece and Turkey as 
she learns about the Ancient Greek 
civilisation that has had such a powerful 
effect on our lives today. 
This is the third chapter in Alice’s railway 
journeys going back in time, following 
her previous adventures probing the 
stories and history of Ancient Egypt 
and the Ottomans. 
Alice begins her journey in Thessaloniki 
and takes a train down the Aegean 
Coast stopping at jaw-dropping sites 
like Vergina and Delphi, before exploring 
Athens and Corinth. Swapping trains for 
boats she learns about ancient life in 
the Cyclades, before heading to Turkey, 
where Ancient Greek culture once 
dominated the Aegean coast there.
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GENRE
History & Mystery
DURATION
6 x 60’
PRODUCER
Spark Media
BROADCASTER
Channel 4
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2025
In Alice’s fourth travelogue in search of 
ancient civilisations, she will discover 
how Rome transformed from a Republic 
to an Empire, how it wrestled control 
of established trading ports, took 
inspiration from the Greeks and the 
Etruscans, built major roads, stunning 
temples and crafted vital water supplies, 
to become the dominant force in 
Europe, north Africa and much of Asia, 
for centuries.
Alice also wants to learn of its legacy, 
and she crafts a theory that suggests 
the Roman Empire is still with us today. 
With brand new scientific research, 
Alice reveals that two hundred years 
of knowledge about the identity of the 
Carthaginians has just been undone, 
and she is given access to the very 
latest archaeological excavations with 
discoveries and knowledge that adds 
significantly to what we thought we 
knew about this epic empire.
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