In this opening episode Cunk travels the world, heading down caves and up mountains in her search for Mankind’s first moments, and with the help of a variety of experts she explains how the earliest societies were formed: from the easier ones to spell like Rome and Greece, to the ones that are harder to spell, like Egypt and Mesopotamia.
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Guest stars Paul Bahn, Jim Al-Khalili, Irving Finkel, Eleanor Robson, Joyce Tyldesley, Lyndsay Coo, Myrto Hatzimichali, Douglas Hedley
Cunk tells the story of the birth of two of the world’s great religions and learns what came next: the fall of the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, the Crusades, and Genghis Khan. So a bit of a rough patch for Mankind, if we’re honest.
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Guest stars Douglas Hedley, Nigel Spivey, Kate Cooper, Laura Ashe, Shirley J. Thompson, John Man, Shahjadha Asghar, Ads Odedra
