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The Di Vinci codes
9pm on Discovery channel, if you have not read the book or you are thinking of watching the film, ideal preview.
lThe Real Da Vinci Code Tony Robinson embarks on a personal quest to uncover the truth about the Holy Grail, encouraged by the bestseller in which author Dan Brown makes a connection between art and history to suggest the inspiration behind the mythical chalice is really a 2,000-year-old secret ††the result of early spin-doctoring within the Christian Church. Tony travels to the Middle East, France, Spain, Italy, America and Glastonbury ††where Joseph of Arimathea is said to have brought the vessel after Jesus died ††in a bid to understand Brown's argument, painstakingly peeling away the layers of conjecture to arrive at his own extraordinary conclusion
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