Liverpool Through the Ages

Billy Butler presents this documentary chronicling the history of Liverpool.

One of the world's premier ports, Liverpool was in fact ignored by the Roman invaders in favour of Chester, and it remains unclear precisely how the city obtained its name.

In the second half of the twentieth century the emergence of the Beatles and the whole Merseybeat sound made Liverpool one of England's cultural centres, and the city is also famous for producing two of the country's premier football clubs, Everton and Liverpool FC.