Ken Follett

So that after a few years, you'd know it.

And when he died, you could carry on the business as it were.

And the other thing about that is the only way they had to transmit knowledge from generation to generation was in this way.

It couldn't be written down.

and there was, as far as we know, no organized body of knowledge.

It must have all been learned by rote for somebody to repeat.

And it seems to me very likely that that was the way of passing knowledge down from generation to generation.

Knowledge and, of course, superstition.

I mean, stories about

ghosts and gods.

I mean, we don't know what they had, but they'll be something of that kind, zombies or fairies or elves and gnomes.

You can make it up because it's a very strong tradition that we still have, don't we?

These fairy tales and these stories of the supernatural, it's very strong in our imaginations now.

Why do they make zombie films?

It's because people love that sort of thing.

Well, we think there was a monument there before the current monument was built.

Well, first of all, we do know that there are some stones at Stonehenge.

There's an outer circle of what are called bluestones.

And we do know, actually, that they were placed there something like a thousand years earlier than the triliths and the monoliths that are the biggest stones.

And we also know where they came from.