Dan Cruickshank On The Road To Armageddon

Israel is home to a wealth of architectural treasures, such as Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, the Wailing Wall, and Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. However, these unique antiquities are constantly under threat from the conflict that ravages the region. In the first of two programmes, historian Dan Cruickshank visits sites holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians, and considers how much longer they can survive hostilities in the Middle East.