- Title: Greek Fire: Source
- Date: 22nd March 1990
- Summary: AS A MILLENIUM ENDS OUR EYES ARE FIXED ON THE FUTURE - A FUTURE WHICH SEEMS INCREASINGLY UNCERTAIN IN OUR AGE OF CHANGE. GREAT QUESTIONS ARE FACING US BUT TO ANSWER THEM WE NEED TO LOOK BACK AS WELL AS FORWARD. ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE FUTURE WE NEED THE GUIDANCE OF THE PAST. ONE ANCIENT CULTURES RELEVANCE IS UNDIMINISHED. GREEK FIRE WAS A SUBSTANCE DEVELOPED IN WARFARE WHICH STAYED ALIGHT IN WATER IT SYMBOLISES THE PERSISTANCE OF ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE ITSELF - A CULTURE WHICH HAS SHAPED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST. GREECE IS THE SOURCE OF WESTERN IMAGINATION AND THINKING AND HAS BEEN OBSESSED WITH GREECE - INTERPRETING IT IN DIFFERENT WAYS DOWN THE AGES. INTERPRETATIONS OF GREECE ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR CONSIOUSNESS. TO UNDERSTAND THEM IS TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES.
- Description:TEN HALF HOUR PROGRAMMES LOOKING AT GREEK CIVILISATION AND HOW IT HAS SHAPED THE WAY WE LIVE NOW.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:TRANSATLANTIC FILMS LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:22/03/1990
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s