Pompeii: Secrets Of The Dead

Channel 5, 9pm

Bettany Hughes draws on her investigative skills and the latest technology to offer a new insight into the lives and deaths of the victims of one of the worst natural disasters in history. As well as travelling to Pompeii and Herculaneum, she sets up her own incident room, complete with DNA tests, to learn more about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 72AD.