Alice Roberts
Self - Host
Ottoman Empire by Train (2024)
Series 1
Professor Alice Roberts takes a train ride that covers 600 years of the Ottoman Empire. Her mission is to learn about this vast empire that started with a dream in the 14th century.
Released Oct. 26, 2024
Episode 47 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.train, tmdb.ottoman-empire
Watch Providers: BritBox, Britbox Apple TV Channel , BBC Select Apple Tv channel
Production Companies: Bossa Nova Productions
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Whirling Dervishes
Alice Roberts starts her Ottoman adventure in Adana. She visits a historic mosque and learns about the origins of Turkish delight. She then takes a train across the Taurus Mountains to Konya.
Oct. 26, 2024, midnight
S1E2 - A Tale of Two Cities
Alice Roberts is on a train to Ankara on her Ottoman adventure. She visits the tomb of Ataturk who saw out the end of the empire. Next, a train to the tomb of Osman, the empire's founder, in Bursa.
Nov. 2, 2024, midnight
S1E3 - Ships in the Night
Alice Roberts arrives in Istanbul and delves into the ingenious strategies employed by the Ottomans to capture the city from Roman control.
Nov. 9, 2024, midnight
S1E4 - Controlling Europe
Entering the Balkans by sleeper train, Alice Roberts visits Bulgaria's capital Sofia. She learns how Istanbul controls the empire and how the landscape is almost entirely Soviet.
Nov. 16, 2024, midnight
S1E5 - Choosing the Wrong Side
In her final train journey, Alice Roberts travels to Budapest to explore the Ottoman Empire's western front and understand its eventual collapse.
Nov. 23, 2024, midnight
Channel 4
47 min/ep
235 min
Oct. 26, 2024
Nov. 23, 2024, midnight
Ended
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