Timewatch
Season 27 Episode 3 - The Wreckers
6.9 ?
1982
Documentary
In January 2007 the MSC Napoli ran aground, spilling its cargo on a Devon beach. Opportunists plundered the ship's booty while the authorities struggled to police the scene. But the looters of the Napoli were reviving a tradition that stretched back centuries: wrecking. Author Bella Bathurst goes in search of the wreckers, in an epic journey that takes her from the Isles of Scilly to the Orkney Islands, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, and from dramatic mythology to the remarkable social history of a national crime. 3/6.
Episodes in Season 27
1
Viking Voyage
50 min
2
Bloody Omaha
60 min
3
The Wreckers
50 min
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The Greatest Knight
50 min
5
The Pharaoh's Lost City
50 min
6
Ten Pound Poms
50 min
7
Stonehenge
55 min
8
Britain's Forgotten Floods
55 min
9
The Boxer Rebellion
55 min
10
Young Victoria
50 min
11
The Last Day of World War One
60 min
