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Terry Jones' Barbarians
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Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was written and presented by Terry Jones, and it challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian. Professor Barry Cunliffe of the University of Oxford acted as consultant for the series.
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Terry Jones
Presenter
Adrian Fear
Julius Caesar
Monika Miles
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