Art That Made Us

An alternative history of the British Isles told through 1,500 years of art, with leading creatives exploring key cultural works that have shaped British art and culture. This first edition examines the turbulent era that followed the Roman occupation of Britain, with sculptor Antony Gormley examining Spong Man, a clay figure that once sat on a fifth-century funerary urn, and actor Michael Sheen performing Y Gododdin, a seventh-century Welsh poem of resistance against the Anglo-Saxons.