Terry Jones' Barbarians
tv show
4 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired May 26, 2006
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Overview
Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was written and presented by Terry Jones, and it challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian. Professor Barry Cunliffe of the University of Oxford acted as consultant for the series.
The Brainy Barbarians
Season 1 - Episode 3 - 1h 0m
Air Date
June 09, 2006
Overview
In Greece and Iran, Jones argues that far from being a godless rabble of swarthy bruisers in tiny skirts, it seems the barbarians of Greece and Persia were peaceable boffins whose innate humanity saw them develop what were, in essence, welfare states.