A Greek Odyssey With Bettany Hughes

Channel 5, 9pm

The historian concludes her island-hopping jaunt by travelling through the Corinth Canal – a feat of engineering that required the removal of 12 million cubic metres of earth. She then visits Mon Repos, the birthplace of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, on Corfu, before arriving at Odysseus’s home island Ithaca, where she puts a group of archers to the test.