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The BBC's flagship history series, from Gladiators to Genghis Khan, Bog bodies to Bloody Omaha, find out more in Timewatch.

Monday 12 March

Back in White City, I am doing some more research. Legal texts form an important part of the story of wrecking – how it was legislated against – so I have been tracking down the original laws and texts. Filming these can be very visual – and we always like to “show” the viewer rather than just tell them about it. First port of call for documents is always the Public Record Office at Kew. Sure enough, many of the relevant texts we want are here. We provisionally book a date to film here with Bella. The Houses of Parliament also have all the Acts on their original parchment scrolls.

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Timewatch is the world’s longest-running history series, having started in 1981, and is the BBC’s flagship history series. Here, members of the production team share the highs, and lows, during the production process as they make some of the next series of programmes.