Television Archive: Excalibur The Search for Arthur 01 Prof Gwyn A Williams 1995

1. The Island of the Mighty. “We have no heritage. We have a history.“ Professor Gwyn A Williams examines the development of the myth of King Arthur, including Guinevere and Lancelot in slightly saucy scenes plus protesters at Stonehenge. The concluding part is available here: Some time after this was uploaded, it got blocked practically everywhere because of a copyright claim from A E on the basis that it included footage from their film “Joan of Arc: Virgin Warrior“. As that was released in 1997 and “Excalibur“ was broadcast in 1995, that seems unlikely, but this channel can’t dispute that because the copyright rests with the BBC. To make this video viewable again, I have trimmed it. The missing parts are summarised below. [11 seconds clipped from original: 18:02-18:13] [Video of a river in slow motion] Gwyn Alf Williams: “These are some of the oldest stories in Western Europe. Suppressed religious memories of the days when kings, or lords, guarded a sacred plac