Chronicle (UK TV series)

Chronicle^[1] was a BBC Television series shown monthly and then fortnightly on BBC Two from 18 June 1966 to its last broadcast in May 1991.

Chronicle focused on popular archaeology and related subjects.

The BBC have made some editions available online.

The most famous episodes of Chonicle were "The Lost Treasure of Jerusalem...?" (1972), "The Priest, the Painter and The Devil" (1974, repeated in 1979) and "The Shadow of The Templars" (1979). These were presented by Henry Lincoln who later went on to write Holy Blood Holy Grail with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.

Notes

1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386922/

Further reading

Ray Sutcliffe (Editor), Chronicle: Essays From Ten Years of Television Archaeology (BBC Publishing, 1978).