Season 1

Daily Bread begins 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, when the world became warmer and wetter. Landscapes were changing everywhere, and plants and animals were flourishing. It was a hunter-gatherer's paradise. In the Middle East, the nomads were about to change the world forever.

Shows the early Europeans 12,000 years ago, living a hard life in nomadic bands. For hundreds of generations they had followed the wild herds, depending on them for survival. But they were about to face a new challenge.

The Stone Age was a turning point for our species. This program examines how the arrival of metal revolutionised the European economy. By the period's conclusion, the seeds of the world as we know it today had already been sown.