TV Pick: Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time
9pm BBC 1
The city of Pompeii captures the imagination like no other, as in 79AD a volcanic disaster left its citizens preserved in ashes to this very day.
Yet no one has been able to answer the question at the heart of our fascination: how did those bodies become frozen in time?
The BBC was granted access to these strange, ghost-like body casts that populate the ruins and using the latest forensic technology, Margaret NB: 10.35pm IN SCOTLAND Mountford (left) dispels the myths around the events long ag