Living in the Past (TV series)

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Living in the Past was a fly on the wall documentary programme aired by the BBC in 1978 which followed a group of 15 young volunteers recreating an Iron Age settlement, where they sustained themselves for a year, equipped only with the tools, crops and livestock that would have been available in Britain in the 2nd Century BC. ^[1]

Produced by BBC Bristol for BBC Two it consisted of twelve fifty minute episodes airing from 23 February to the 11 May 1978. ^[1]

A follow-up programme aired in the same year Living in the Present discovered what the participants had thought of the experiment and how they were adjusting back to modern day living. ^[2]

In 2001 the BBC repeated the experiment with Surviving the Iron Age, which included three children of Living in the Past's volunteers.

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