The Celts | |
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Genre | Documentary series |
Narrated by | John Morgan |
Opening theme | " The Eternal Knot" [1] |
Ending theme | "The Eternal Knot" |
Composer | Karl Jenkins |
Country of origin | Wales, United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Cenwyn Edwards John Alick Macpherson |
Producers | Caryl Ebenezer J. Mervyn Williams |
Editor | Glyn Shakeshaft |
Camera setup | Haydn Denman |
Running time | 50 minutes (per episode) |
Production companies | Opus Television S4C Rhyngwladol International |
Original release | |
Network | S4C |
Release | 2000 |
The Celts ( Welsh: Y Celtiaid [2]) is a 2000 television documentary series produced by Opus Television for the Welsh channel S4C. [3] A book adaptation of the same name by John Davies was published in the same year by Cassell & Co. [4] Also in that year, the programme was sold to the American cable network Celtic Vision. [5]
The series examines who the Celts were, where they came from and what made their culture distinctive from other European peoples; with dramatizations of major historical events and visits to modern Celtic lands. A number of archaeologists and scholars of Celtic studies are featured in the documentary, such as Jörg Biel , Peter Connolly, Barry Cunliffe, Markus Egg , Michel Egloff, John T. Koch, Barry Raftery, Colin Renfrew, Peter Reynolds, Thomas Stöllner , Bryan Sykes, among others.
The series has been released on DVD by Kultur International Films in 2010. [6]