Stonehenge – Access All Areas. Coming soon

A major new 11-part documentary series from archaeologist Julian Richards

One whiteboard. Hundreds of questions. Decades of digging. Still no neat answers.

How did they move 30-tonne sarsen stones, and bluestones all the way from Wales? What was the route? Why choose those exact stones — and why from so far away? How did they shape, transport, and erect them with nothing but stone, wood, and muscle?

Why align the whole monument so precisely to the midwinter sunset and midsummer sunrise? What does the sun mean to the people who built it? Was this a place of the living, the dead, or something far more profound — a changing society marking time, ancestry, and the cosmos?

Was it a temple? A calendar? An ancestral monument? A healing centre? Or something we still haven’t imagined? Why are some stones missing? Why were others deliberately broken or buried? And why, after 5,000 years, does Stonehenge refuse to surrender its deepest secrets?

Julian Richards has spent over 35 years exploring Stonehenge and its landscape. In this no-holds-barred series he goes Access All Areas — tearing apart old theories that no longer work, testing the latest ideas, following the bluestone and sarsen trails, examining the evidence from digs, scans, and the stones themselves, and confronting everything that still doesn’t add up.

You’ll see the real process of archaeology: the “maybe it was Merlin” guesses, the failed hypotheses, the new data from modern science, the solar alignments, the landscape context, the ancestral connections — and the honest admission that we still don’t know it all.

No fluff. No tidy Hollywood ending. Just rigorous, passionate, on-the-ground investigation into Britain’s greatest prehistoric enigma.

Eleven episodes. From Sunday 3 May 2026.

First episode drops on YouTube: → Subscribe now at youtube.com/@julianrichards1483

If you think you know Stonehenge… think again. This is the series that goes deeper than ever before.