Magic Circles

Peter France interviews Aubrey Burl, authority on stone circles, about the history of the Stonehenge site before construction of the existing circle. Peter France looks back to ealier this year when the hill fort at Maiden Castle was at the centre of English Heritage's controversial plans to preserve our past which still rages and which have split the world of archaeology . A dramatized reconstruction of scenes from the life of seventeenth-century astrologer Samuel Jeake, who sought to prove the validity of astrology by linking events in his life to astrological birthcharts drawn up for the time of these events.