London: 2000 Years of History

London is one of the largest and most successful cities on earth, yet 2000 years ago it was an uninhabited swamp. Presenters tell the glorious, and sometimes gory, story of the city's meteoric rise to power: how it faced daring invasions, catastrophic fires and deadly plague and how it grew from a small Roman trading post, to the capital of the British Empire and ultimately to the city we know.