Timewatch · SEASON 27
The Wreckers
Episode 3 · 2008-01-12
- Documentary
Episode overview
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.
50 minutes
Season 27 episodes
1. Viking Voyage2008-01-05
2. Bloody Omaha2008-01-06
3. The Wreckers2008-01-12
4. The Greatest Knight2008-01-19
5. The Pharaoh's Lost City2008-01-26
6. Ten Pound Poms2008-02-02
7. Stonehenge2008-09-27
8. Britain's Forgotten Floods2008-10-04
9. The Boxer Rebellion2008-10-11
10. Young Victoria2008-10-18
11. The Last Day of World War One2008-11-01
