Kon-Tiki's Greatest Impact on Popular Archaeology [30min]

It's 60 years since a crew of intrepid and hard-bitten Norwegians first set out on what was, on the face of it, a pretty flimsy premise -- that you could cross the mighty Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia with nothing more solid than a balsawood raft. That raft, the Kon-Tiki, and the exploits of those Norwegians, led by the visionary Thor Heyerdahl, were to become world renowned. History presenter Tony Robinson -- 'Baldrick' of the Blackadder TV series -- tells the story of Heyerdahl's epic journey and its lasting effect on popular archaeology.