''Britain's Most Historic Towns'' is a British television history programme presented by Alice Roberts that began airing on

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in 2018. A second and third series were commissioned.

History

''Britain's Most Historic Towns'' is a history TV programme first aired as a series of six episodes beginning 7 April 2018. The premise of each episode was that presenter Professor Alice Roberts and contributor Dr

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would provide evidence and stories to back up that week's featured town's claim to be the most historic town from some period in British history. A second series started on

on 18 May 2019 with an episode based on wartime Dover. Filming for the third series began in February 2020, but had to be paused from mid-March due to the national travel restrictions arising from the

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List of episodes

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

∗ Not in BARB top 20 viewing figures

References

External links

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