Australia: The Story of Us

The Icknield Way is unique among long distance tracks because it can claim to be the oldest road in Britain. Extending from the Dorset coast to Norfolk, the ancient route of the Icknield Way consists of prehistoric pathways. Dotted with archaeological remains, it survives as splendid tracks and green lanes along the chalk spine of England.

This is war at its weirdest. Here are the strange stories you will not find in any other history show. In this episode; An alien language with an unbreakable code. A cryptic conundrum sends the Nazis a sinister clue. The unspeakable horror of the German corpse factories. And the British volunteers who are buried alive.

In Germany, 1945 with the surrender of the German Reich, the questions surrounding the post-war order, the victorious powers' spheres of influence, and of course, the atomic bomb. The bomb would shape the lives of the entire world community over the next four decades: the technological arms race, the fear of eradicating the entire human race, and nuclear destruction would be burned into people's minds and have an influence on all areas of human life. From 1945 onwards, the two superpowers start their struggle to impose their ideological influence on the world. On the one hand, the democratic market economy of the US and, on the other, the communist, planned economy of the USSR. Follow the major events and incidents that addressed the question of what system is best, what system would prevail. When in 1957 the Soviets successfully launch Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, the race for supremacy also begins in space. Only in 1969, with the perfectly organised US lunar mission, the two super powers are on a par with each other. From the beginning of the Cold War conflict, Germany is the major ideological battlefield for the Soviets and the Americans as they try to win over the hearts and minds of the German people in the eastern and western part of the divided country.